RELATIONSHIP OF MOTIVATION FOR STUDYING WITH PROFESSIONAL QUALIFICATIONS IN A ROMANIAN PRESCHOOL TEACHERS SAMPLE

<doi>10.24250/jpe/1/2026/CVI/</doi>

Abstract

The present study sought to investigate the aspects of
academic motivation using the MUSIC scale. The
hypothesis was that perceptions of own motivation for
study are related to the professional qualifications already
achieved. The sample of this study consisted of a voluntary
group of 98 students, all of them already working as
preschool teachers, mainly enrolled in the Master's
Programs: Educational Management - first and second
year and Psychopedagogy of Early Education - first and
second year. The study had a cross-sectional design. Two
types of statistical analyses were performed: Spearman
correlation and GLM multivariate analysis. Interpretation
of results from this study suggested that the hypothesis of
the study was only partially confirmed, in the correlational
analysis only three motivation dimensions presented
statistically significant relationships and in the second
analysis only Interest dimension was statistically
significantly influenced by the professional qualification
already obtained (the Grad_nr. variable). It is considered
that the difference between significant results obtained
using correlation analysis and GLM multivariate analysis
is due to the way these analyses work, the first one
considers the whole group and the second one tests the
prediction in each subgroup of the sample. But, even
considering this limitation, results obtained in this study
indicate that professional development can be a useful
indicator for further motivation to improve themselves as
professionals and for making efforts to obtain a higher
professional qualification.