Adaptation of the Russian-Language Version of the Questionnaire “Intrinsic Motivation and Ability of Self-Perception”

Introduction. Motivation is one of the most reliable predictors of success in school, confirmed by the results of meta-analyses controls for intelligence and previous academic achievements. Goals and objectives. This article gives the results of the adaptation of the Russian version of the self-reported questionnaire, “Intrinsic motivation and Ability of self-perception”. It was aimed at measuring two aspects of a student's motivational sphere: their desire to study certain academic disciplines and self-assessment of their educational achievements in certain subjects at school. The age range analyzed was primary and secondary school children. Materials and methods. The questionnaire “Intrinsic motivation and Ability of selfperception” is aimed at measuring the motivation to study such school subjects as the Russian language, mathematics, natural sciences and physical education. The study involved 936 students aged 8 to 16.9 years, 396 primary school children (grades 2-4, 52.3% boys) and 540 adolescents (grades 5-9, 50.9% boys). Confirmatory factor analysis (CFI) and Student's t test were used. Results. According to the analyses of the original model, intrinsic motivation and selfperceptions of achievements factors for each school discipline had very high intercorrelations, which pointed towards a common latent construct underlying both intrinsic motivation and self-assessment of educational achievements. The study reveals differences in learning motivation between primary schoolchildren and adolescents in all analyzed school disciplines. Additionally observed was the tendency towards weakening of interrelationships between scores for learning motivations of various school disciplines in the period from primary to basic school education. Conclusion. Thus, the results of the adaptation of the Russian-language version of the “Intrinsic motivation and Ability of self-perception” questionnaire confirmed the four-factor structure, according to which there is a single indicator of academic motivation for each of the four school disciplines - the Russian language, mathematics, natural sciences and physical education.