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Metamotivation In Medical Students: Explaining Motivation Regulation Strategies In Medical Students, Ali Norouzi, Maryam Alizadeh, Dean Parmelee, Saharnaz Nedjat, Saiideh Norouzi, Mohammad Shariati

Medical Education Faculty Publications

BACKGROUND: Metamotivation is a process that students use to monitor their motivational states to reach their academic goals. To date, few studies have addressed the ways that medical students manage their motivational states. This study aim to identify the motivational strategies of medical students as they use the metamotivational process to monitor and control their motivational states.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: This qualitative study uses directed content analysis of the narrative responses of 18 medical students to draft an in-depth and semistructured interview protocol which were conducted through WhatsApp due to social distance restrictions of COVID-19. Data were collected, encoded, and …

Motivational Components Involved In The Metamotivational Monitoring In Medical Students, Ali Norouzi, Dean Parmelee, Mohammad Shariati, Saiideh Norouzi, Maryam Alizadeh

Medical Education Faculty Publications

Background: Theoretical implications of self-regulated learning emphasize that self-regulation of motivation (metamotivation) plays an important role in learning, effort, perseverance, and academic success in general. Metamotivation is how people monitor and control their motivational states to achieve their goals. Researchers believe that metamotivation includes two reciprocal processes: metamotivational monitoring, evaluating whether the person has selected the proper level (quantity) and type (quality) of motivation to perform his tasks; and metamotivational control, using the results of the monitoring phase and applying suitable strategies for adapting or changing the motivation. In metamotivational monitoring, students try to identify the declined motivational component in …