Motivation to Achievement in Adolescents: Differences in Sexes between Public and Private High Schools

Abstract

Adolescents go through a critical period of development. Therefore, they have to face various challenges, changes and decisions. One of them, it is that they live frequently in environments with a lot of risk factors, which influence in them and generates feelings as frustration, aphaty and uninteresting for their wishing, but in the same time, a feeling of greatness with they respond their environment. The study’s aim was to know the relationship between the different risk factors and motivation to achievement by Mexican adolescents between public and private high schools. The results showed a positive and negative correlation toward more motivation increase the protective factors and less motivation of achievement in presence the risk factors. The intrinsic motivation was marked by the three types of protection factors (self-discipline, self-respect and self-acceptance) and extrinsic motivation was integrated by environment’s risk factors. Both are determinant over the motivation of achievement in this population. The risk factor unconsciousness and impulsive showed difference between public and private school. It is crucial to develop in them a project of life toward integral self-realisation.