Prediction of academic achievement motivation based on academic alienation, social support, media usage and demographic variables

Academic achievement motivation plays an important role in academic success, so its prediction and improvement is very important. This study investigated the relationship between academic achievement motivation and academic alienation, social support, media usage and demographic variables, and also predicted academic achievement motivation.study was correlational. Its statistical population included all male students of Isfahan university amongst them 96 persons were selected randomly. The instrument of this study included Pirnia academic alienation, Mobarak Bakhshayesh social support, Eliasi media usage, and researcher-made demographic information questionnaire. The results showed that academic achievement motivation has a significant correlation with academic alienation, social support, media usage and socioeconomic status.. The results from stepwise regression analysis showed that academic alienation, media usage, socioeconomic status and these variables altogether explained 17.6%, 8.3%, 4.3% and 30.3% of the variance of academic achievement motivation, respectively. These results indicate that less academic alienation, less media usage and better socioeconomic status can improve students’ academic achievement motivation.