A STUDY OF FACTORS AFFECTING RESEARCH COMMITMENT AMONG POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS

Authors

  • Hyacinth O. Eze Enugu State College of Education (Technical) Enugu, Nigeria

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.53555/nnssh.v8i8.1348

Keywords:

PSRC, CSE, post-graduate, students, research commitment

Abstract

The university's post-graduate research activities are an essential part of the educational curriculum geared toward scientific research development in academia. Past research has underscored numerous constraints in post-graduate research. However, little is known about the effects of the supervisor's factor and computer acceptance on the commitment to research. The paper examined post-graduate research commitment based on perceived supervisor's research competence and computer self-efficacy. Ninety-six students enrolled in graduate programs in public universities in the Enugu and Ebonyi States of Nigeria participated in the study. Data were collected using self-report measures. The present study's purpose was to understand better the predictive roles of perceived supervisor's research competence and computer self-efficacy on post-graduate students' research commitment. The result supports the hypothesis that the main independent variables of the study statistically significantly predicted research commitment, F (2, 94) = 31.205, p < 0.05. All two variables contributed significantly to the prediction, p < .05. The result revealed that the predictor variables contributed 14.1% of the variance in the post-graduate research commitment. The result has implications for research development in academia.

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Published

2022-08-20

How to Cite

Eze, H. O. . (2022). A STUDY OF FACTORS AFFECTING RESEARCH COMMITMENT AMONG POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS . Journal of Advance Research in Social Science and Humanities (ISSN 2208-2387), 8(8), 42-47. https://doi.org/10.53555/nnssh.v8i8.1348