Peimani Mojaver A, Asadollahi Z, pourgholamali A, shakiba E. Survey effect of spiritual health on the academic motivation of Rafsanjan dental school students in 2022-2023. DSME 2024; 11 (3) :263-276
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PhD of Higher Education Managment, Faculty of Dentistry, Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences, Rafsanjan, Iran.
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Introduction: Academic motivation is one of the most effective factors on students’ performance and the only factor impact on academic success. spiritual health is one of the four dimensions of health and a strategy for dreaming with stress during the study period, especially in students. The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the relationship between spiritual health and academic motivation of students of Rafsanjan University of Medical Sciences in2022-2023 years.
Methods: The present study is a descriptive cross-sectional, The statistical population was 143 students of Rafsanjan Dental Faculty. which were selected by census method. In order to collect data, Polotzin and Ellison’s spiritual health questionnaire and Harter’s academic motivation questionnaire were used. Data were entered into SPSS software version 26. Descriptive statistics in the form of standard deviation, average, number and percentage and Kolmogorov Smirnov and Chi-square tests, one-way variance and Pearson’s correlation coefficient were used for data analysis.
Results: 140 students with an average age of 22.75 ± 1.34 years were examined. A positive and significant correlation was found between spiritual health and academic motivation of students, which is statistically significant(p<0.001). There was no statistically significant relationship between spiritual health and gender(P=0.762), entry year(P=0.067), age(P=0.069). between educational motivation and gender (P=0.953), entry year (P=0.097) and gender (P=0.468) There was no significant statistical relationship.
Discussion: There is a significant positive relationship between spiritual health and academic motivation. It can be concluded that by increasing the spiritual health of students, it is possible to improve their academic motivation. Academic motivation and spiritual health each had no significant relationship with acaademic year, age and gender.
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Special Received: 2024/09/11 | Accepted: 2024/11/11 | Published: 2024/12/20