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    STUDIA BIOETHICA - Issue no. 1-2 / 2017  
         
  Article:   THE VALIDITY AND FACTOR STRUCTURE OF STRENGTH OF MOTIVATION FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS – REVISED QUESTIONNAIRE – EXPLORATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS ON ROMANIAN STUDENT.

Authors:  CORINA DONDAȘ, MAGDALENA IORGA, CRISTINA ZUGUN-ELOAE, BEATRICE-GABRIELA IOAN.
 
       
         
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.24193/subbbioethica.2017.06

Published Online: 2017-12-25
Published Print: 2017-12-25

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Instruments that are meant to quantify the measurement of the strength of motivation in medical schools try to determine how the students start and pursue their medical training. Strength of motivation for medical school was defined as the student’s readiness to start and continue medical training regardless of setbacks, disappointments, sacrifices or misfortune. Aim: To validate a revised version of Strength of Motivation for Medical Students Questionnaire (SMMS) and to explore its relation to a few variables that are related to this concept. Methods: Exploratory factor analysis was used to verify the factor structure of SMMS-Revised of Kusurkar et al. from 2011 in a sample of 601 medical students from all 6 years of study. It was used as a method of factor extraction Principal components analysis and as a method of factor rotation both VARIMAX and Direct Oblimin but we kept the solution in which was used the VARIMAX rotation because the results were similar. Results: The SMMS-R is a good and reliable tool with a god internal consistency (alpha Chronbach = 0.797) that can measure the level of motivation of medical students. The scores obtained by our participants showed a high level of motivation both for the total motivation score and also for the scores of the three subscales. We found no significant correlation with the total score of Perceived Stress Scale - 10 by Cohen & Williamson in 1988 and a negative correlation (r = -.095, p = .020) with the total score at Beck Depression Inventory - Beck et al, 1961. Conclusion: The SMMS-R is valid for use in medical students but we advise that this tool should only be used for research purposes or for evaluation of medical students after they have been admitted into the medical field.

Keywords: strength of motivation, validation, exploratory analysis, medical training
 
         
     
         
         
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