Meta-Motivation and its Relationship to the Uniqueness Seeking of the Engineering Colleges Students

Abstract

The current study aims to identify the meta-motivation and uniqueness seeking of the study sample, and the correlational relationship among them. The present study sample consists of (400) students from the colleges of engineering, University of Baghdad, and the University of Technology for the academic year (2019-2020). The researcher has adopted the Arabic version of Chen Scale (1995) to measure the meta-motivation, which was translated into Arabic by Al-Samawi (2011). The scale includes six dimensions. The researcher has also adopted the Snyder & Fromkin scale (1980) to measure the uniqueness seeking that has translated and used into the Arabic environment. The scale consists of three dimensions. The results showed that students of the Faculties of Engineering have high meta-motivation levels, while they a moderate rate of uniqueness seeking. Furthermore, there is a significant and predictive correlated relationship among the meta-motivation and uniqueness seeking