Abstract
The purpose of the study is to conduct an empirical verification of the validity of the theoretical assumption that there is an order in the structure of motives of activity, which is determined by the proportionality between the significance of each motive in their aggregate significance and is quantitatively manifested in the parameters of the hyperbolic H-distribution ranked by the parameter. The necessary conditions for solving this problem are highlighted: a) structural elements - weakly functionally dependent on each other motives; b) in the structure of motives, the functional significance of each has a quantitative expression, which must be measured through the organization of empirical research; c) the measure of the total functional significance of all motives is limited by the situation of activity and the costs of obtaining its product. On a sample of students of the first, second, third, fourth courses of technical and humanitarian specialties (N=860) using the method of subjective assessment of the significance of each of the three motives for studying at the university in their combined significance (“acquisition of knowledge”; “mastering a profession”; “obtaining a diploma”) and using a given level of the average error of approximation of empirical results with an H-distribution of 10%, it was found that statistically, at a level of error probability less than 20%, students with an average error below a given level predominate. The possible formal and substantive reasons that led to a decrease in the validity of the result are named. The interpretation of the results in the context of the “junction” of systems theory and activity theory is presented. The directions of further research in the context of the proposed model are determined.
Highlights
Taking into consideration the degree of development of the problem and understanding by this the number of different information sources on this topic, it can be argued that the study of human motivation, along with the problem of personality, occupies a leading place in Russian psychology according to this parameter
After finding the parameters of hyperbolic distributions for all subjects (N=860), ideal values of severity corresponding to these parameters in the structure of motives of each motive were calculated and average approximation errors were found with rounding to 0.1
The presence of three statistical conditions, namely: 1) the use of “low reliable” nonparametric statistics, especially related to dichotomy; 2) exceeding the acceptable level of error probability in psychology by 5% and 3) the lack of statistical verification of the reliability of the average approximation error, forces us to accept the statistical hypothesis Н0 and say that the structure of motives for educational activity cannot be described by a hyperbolic H-distribution ranked by parameter
Summary
Taking into consideration the degree of development of the problem and understanding by this the number of different information sources on this topic, it can be argued that the study of human motivation, along with the problem of personality, occupies a leading place in Russian psychology according to this parameter. There is a huge number of different kinds of such sources, which reflect certain aspects of the study of the motivation of a person. These are monographs (Badmaeva, 2004; Leontiev, 2002 etc.), doctoral dissertations (Gordeeva, 2013; Orlov, 1984 etc.) and a huge number of articles, theses in various collections, journals. The choice of the order of the structure of the motives of activity as the subject of mathematical description is due to the following factors. It can be assumed that the same need can be satisfied by different objects (motives), and the activity itself is always potentially polymotivated, which potentially can www.ijcrsee.com 369
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