Perfiles motivacionales, implicación y ansiedad ante los deberes escolares y rendimiento académico en estudiantes de Educación Secundaria Obligatoria

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to identify students with different motivational profiles and analyze the differences in their involvement and anxiety about homework and academic achievement. The sample is 714 high school students. Focusing on the groups identified, the group of learning goals takes more amount homework, spends more time, manages better the time and gets better achievement. The group avoidance of failure has high levels of homework anxiety. The group of unmotivated students has low homework engagement, poor achievement and low levels of homework anxiety.