The relationship between student's learning motivation and life style in a Japanese medical school

Abstract

Motivation research has studied in educational psychology in past decade (Pintrich, 1993; 2000) in primary, secondary and college education (Vansteenkiste et al., 2005). The motivated strategies for learning questionnaire (MSLQ) is a self‐report instrument designed to assess college students' motivational orientations (Pintrichet al., 1993). MSLQ is based on a general cognitive view of motivation. The studies of learning motivation in medical students were limited.In this study, we examined the relation between learning motivation and lifestyle such as food intake and sleep in medical students. 421 medical students participated in the present study. The questionnaire was all anonymous. The survey included that the learning motivation, daily food intake and sleep pattern. We compared those items and learning motivation.In the results, the frequency of breakfast and consumption of vegetable and milk production were correlated with learning motivation, though the sleep duration was not significantly correlated with learning motivation.In conclusion, the balanced food intake including vegetable and milk production could be important factor for improving learning motivation in students.This abstract is from the Experimental Biology 2018 Meeting. There is no full text article associated with this abstract published in The FASEB Journal.