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Learning Environments Research
Published in: Learning Environments Research 1/2019

02-05-2018 | Original Paper

Responsibility of learning: a cross-cultural examination of the relationship of grit, motivational belief and self-regulation among college students in the US, UAE and Turkey

Authors: Nausheen Pasha-Zaidi, Ernest Afari, Barış Sevi, Betul Urganci, Justin Durham

Published in: Learning Environments Research | Issue 1/2019

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Abstract

The present study explored the relationship between grit, motivational beliefs and self-regulation among undergraduate students in the United States, the United Arab Emirates and Turkey. These factors place the responsibility of learning on the students, rather than the educational environment. As most studies continue to focus on Western, educated, industrialised, rich and democratic populations, the current investigation adds to the extant knowledge of non-cognitive factors in student learning by focusing on international samples in three different cultural contexts to determine if indeed these factors are related in diverse educational environments. Grit significantly predicted the other non-cognitive factors in each of the contexts studied. There was also a positive relationship between the two constructs representing motivational beliefs, namely, self-efficacy and task value, in each of the contexts studied. The relationship between the constructs, however, differed with respect to self-regulation behaviours in the three cultural contexts represented in the study. Possible explanations for these differences are discussed.
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Metadata
Title
Responsibility of learning: a cross-cultural examination of the relationship of grit, motivational belief and self-regulation among college students in the US, UAE and Turkey
Authors
Nausheen Pasha-Zaidi
Ernest Afari
Barış Sevi
Betul Urganci
Justin Durham
Publication date
02-05-2018
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Published in
Learning Environments Research / Issue 1/2019
Print ISSN: 1387-1579
Electronic ISSN: 1573-1855
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10984-018-9268-y

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