ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Educational Psychology
Volume 16 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2025.1619935
A latent profile analysis of category characteristics of learning engagement, achievement motivation, and its Influencing factors among Chinese medical students
Provisionally accepted
- 1Clinical College of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China
- 2Health Humanities Research Innovation Team, Clinical College of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China
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presents an empirical study employing latent profile analysis (LPA) to explore heterogeneity in medical students' learning engagement and achievement motivation, with career calling as a key predictor. While the manuscript makes a valuable contribution through its use of latent profile analysis to identify distinct medical student subgroups, key improvements would strengthen the work by deepening theoretical interpretation in the Discussion by explicitly linking profiles to Covington's typology and discussing non-linear career calling effects, and restructure the Conclusion to directly address each research objective. Careful proofreading for language clarity and expanded limitations would further enhance readiness for publication. Attach, I detail limitations and recommendations for improvement.Thank you for your suggestions. We have revised and embellished the language of the article. For your detailed suggestions, we have revised them in the article and responded to each of them in the attached document. Changes have been highlighted in red in the text.This manuscript presents an empirical study employing latent profile analysis (LPA) to explore heterogeneity in medical students' learning engagement and achievement motivation, with career calling as a key predictor. While the manuscript makes a valuable contribution through its use of latent profile analysis to identify distinct medical student subgroups, key improvements would strengthen the work by deepening theoretical interpretation in the Discussion by explicitly linking profiles to Covington's typology and discussing non-linear career calling effects, and restructure the Conclusion to directly address each research objective.Below, I detail limitations and recommendations for improvement.
Keywords: Learning engagement, achievement motivation, Career calling, latent profile analysis, Medical students
Received: 29 Apr 2025; Accepted: 09 Sep 2025.
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* Correspondence: Siyu Di, Clinical College of Anhui Medical University, Hefei, Anhui, China
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