Psychological well-being and postgraduate students’ academic achievement in research methodology at an ODL institution

  • Sanet van der Westhuizen UNISA
DOI: https://doi.org/10.20853/27-5-293

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to determine the degree to which psychological well-being variables (sense of coherence, research self-efficacy, locus of control and hope) could predict the academic achievement of students enrolled for a research methodology module at a postgraduate level in an ODL context, while controlling for the effect of biographical variables (gender, age, culture group, home language and employment status). An availability sample (N=840) of postgraduate students enrolled for a course in research methodology across three years was used. Stepwise linear regression showed that gender, culture group and language predicted 17.6% of the variance in academic achievement in this module. When the psychological well-being variables were added, only research self-efficacy emerged as a statistically significant predictor, adding 1.5% of the variance explained in academic achievement in this research methodology module.
Published
2016-01-11
How to Cite
van der Westhuizen, Sanet. 2016. “Psychological Well-Being and Postgraduate students’ Academic Achievement in Research Methodology at an ODL Institution”. South African Journal of Higher Education 27 (5). https://doi.org/10.20853/27-5-293.
Issue
Vol. 27 No. 5 (2013)
Section
General Articles

Copyright (c) 2016 Sanet van der Westhuizen

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