Online Academic Help-seeking of Medical Students: the Role of Learning Motivation

10.6145/jme.202306_27(2).0002

Yu-Chen Kuo；Yen-Yuan Chen；Yen-Lin Chiu

learning motivation ； online help-seeking ； intrinsic motivation ； information search ； test anxiety

Journal of Medical Education

27卷2期（2023 / 06 / 01）

105 - 113

英文

Purpose: Explored the influencing factors of learning motivation on online academic help-seeking among medical students. Method: The study recruited 189 medical students who had prior experience using the internet to search for academic-related information. Two research instruments, namely the Motivation of Learning Medicine Scale (MLM) and the Online Academic Help-Seeking Behavior Scale (OAHS), were utilized to measure the participants' motivation and online academic help-seeking behaviors. To examine predictors of online academic help-seeking behaviors, regression analyses were employed by including individual background variables and motivation as independent variables. Result: Task value emerged as a significant factor with a positive influence on both authoritative information search (β = 0.33, p < 0.001) and non-authoritative information search (β = 0.33, p < 0.001). Additionally, test anxiety was found to be a significant factor positively influencing medical students' online help-seeking behaviors in terms of informal query (β = 0.26, p < 0.01), formal queries (β = 0.18, p < 0.05), and authoritative information search. Additionally, the grade of medical students showed a positive correlation with authoritative information search (β = 0.20, p < 0.01), while it exhibited a negative association with non-authoritative information search (β = -0.17, p < 0.01). Conclusions: Learning motivation was found to significantly influence the online academic help-seeking behaviors of medical students. Notably, task value and test anxiety were identified as factors that positively influenced online academic help-seeking.

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