Survey of Educational Motivation and Its Related Factors in Zabol University of Medical Sciences Students in 2009.

motivation is the learning incentives in human. In order to change the trainees’ behavior، the factors related to motivation and the degree of their impacts should be identified. So the present research was designed to determine the degree of the university student''s educational motivation and their related factors in Zabol University of Medical Sciences Students. This is a descriptive analytical cross-sectional research with 400 students. In order to collect the data educational motivation questionnaire (AMS)، English samples translation with 27 questions of seven option is fully disagree to fully agree were used. to determine related Factors of questionnaire included three parts -university student welfare، faculty education and job futurethat its validity and reliability were tested in the previous studies. Finally، the data were analyzed by SPSS software using descriptive and analytical statistics and the independent t tests، one-way variance analysis and Pierson correlation. p<0. 05 was considered significant. According to the results، educational motivation mean of the students was 131. 32 17. 57 (total maximum of 189 scores) and 17/8% (71 peoples) having weakness educational motivation،68/5% (274people) moderate educational motivation and 13/7% (55 people) good educational motivation. There was significant difference between the students educational motivation and each of the welfare، educational and job future levels (p<0/05)، but there was not significant difference between the educational motivation and each demographic and educational variables except residence status and faculty (p>0. 05.) In regard with the results and the indication of the moderate educational motivation among the students، it is necessary that more attention be paid to the factors through the officials in order to determine these factors and obviate the welfare and educational obstacles، it finally ending in promoting the students motivation and the actualization of their potentials.