STUDENT ENGAGEMENT, MOTIVATIONAL BELIEFS AND SOCIAL SUPPORT AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS: DIFFERENCE IN GENDER AND AGE

The present study is designed to examine the impact of motivational beliefs and social support on student engagement of senior secondary school students. The respondents were students from 3 government senior secondary schools of Amritsar district which included 200 students both male and female selected by Randomly sampling method. Data were collected using Student engagement scale by kamat, Vasudha and falleiro, Sameena (2013), motivational beliefs scale by Singh and Kavita (2019) and social support scale by Dull and Godara (2016). Results found that the Females students have higher student engagement than male adolescent students. Further it was revealed that females students were better in behavioral dimension of students’ engagement than males’ students. It was found that students of 16 years age group exhibited better student engagement followed by 15 and 14 years of students. Further the present study revealed that students of different age group differ with respect to cognitive and affective domain of student engagement. The present study revealed that males and females students do not differ with respect to motivational beliefs. Further, study found that students of different age group do not differ with respect to motivational beliefs. It was found that the females students perceive higher social support than male students. there was a significant difference found between different dimensions (Family support, teacher support, friends peer support and online support) of social support. so present study revealed that females students have higher family, teacher, friends peer and online support than males students.  

Keywords: Student engagement, Motivational beliefs, Social support, Secondary school students.