The over excitement and implicit perceptions of intelligence as predictors of mental motivation among academically gifted high school students

Document Type : Original Article

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Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology and Head of the Department of Psychology - Faculty of Education - Sadat City University

Abstract

The present study aimed to identify the relationship between over excitability  and Implicit Theory of Intelligence by mental motivation of Academic talent secondary stage students, participated in this study was (179) students selected from the original community from Ashmoun Administration schools - Menoufia Governorate Their ages ranged between (15) years to (16.3) years, with an average age of (15.7) years and a standard deviation of (0.5) months, The study used: Stanford Bennyh  scale Fifth Edition (Translated by: Mahmoud Abu Nile, Mohammed Mohammed& Abdul Muqayed Abdul Samie , 2011), over excitability scale (Prepared by: the author), Implicit Theory of Intelligence(Prepared by: Abd- El- Ftah & Yates, 2006: Translated by the author) and mental motivation scale Translated  by (Giancarol & Facion, 1998) Translated  by Tawfik Marae & Mohamed Noval (2008), The study found that: There is a statistically significant positive relationship between over excitability and mental motivation, and a statistically significant negative relationship between Theory Of Fixed Intelligence and mental motivation, but There is a statistically significant positive relationship between Theory Of Malleable Intelligence and mental motivation. It also found that: mental motivation can be predicted from over excitability and mental motivation of Academic talent secondary stage students.

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