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The impact of motivation on reading and social studies engagement among fourth-grade primary school students
Barış Çetin
Elif Beste Konyalıoğlu
Abstract
With the research reported on here we aimed to assess the impact of the reading motivation of 4th-grade elementary school
students’ on their motivation towards social studies. We used the cross-sectional survey model in the research. The
participants in the study were 270 fourth-grade elementary school students studying in the Balıkesir province of Türkiye.
The research data were collected using the reading motivation scale developed by Wigfield and Guthrie (1997) and adapted
to Turkish by Yıldız (2010), and the social studies course motivation scale developed by Tahiroğlu and Aktepe (2015) for
4th- and 5th-grade students. A significant relationship was found between the reading motivation scale and the social
studies course motivation scale. The model fit indices were determined to be acceptable.
