liu_2025_learning_motivation

5,520 responses from 345 respondents to 16 items.

One of 3 tables from the same source; this one is the learning_motivation table. The others are listed under Related tables.

About this table

DescriptionLearning Motivation scale (16 items, intrinsic + extrinsic, 1-5 Likert), N=345 Chinese college students
ReferenceLiu S-h, Gong X-l, Ji Q, Li Q-q, Kong M-h, Du X-h, Xiang L-y, Zhu Z-r (2025) Meaning in life, positive cognition, and learning motivation: A mediational analysis among Chinese college students. PLoS One 20(9): e0330447.
DOI10.1371/journal.pone.0330447
LicenceCC BY 4.0
Source datahttps://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0330447

Size and shape

Responses5,520
Respondents345
Items16
Response categories5
Responses per respondent16
Responses per item345
Density1
LongitudinalFALSE

Classification

age rangeAdult (18+)
sampleEducational
measurement toolSurvey/questionnaire
item formatLikert Scale/selected response
primary language(s)chi

Item text

This table has item text in the IRW: the wording administered to respondents, not just the response codes.

InstrumentLearning Motivation Questionnaire (LMQ; compiled by Wang W., 2006)
Mean words per item15.875
Mean characters per item85.875
Mean characters per response8.200
Flesch-Kincaid grade level8.766

Codebook

This codebook is reconstructed by the IRW from the IRW data standard and the script that built it, liu_2025_meaning_learning.py. It is our best reading, not the source’s own codebook, and it may contain mistakes. Where the two disagree, the source data are the authority. If you find an error, please tell us.

ColumnWhat it isSource column
IRW standard columns
idIRW standard Identifier for the focal unit being measured — typically a person, but sometimes another entity (e.g., a word in a lexical task).序号
itemIRW standard Item identifier.made in the build script
respIRW standard Response value.made in the build script
Respondent covariates
cov_ageCovariate 4、您的年龄是?
cov_genderCovariate 3、您的性别:(男=1,女=0)
cov_only_childCovariate 6、请问您是否是独生子女?(是=1,否=0)
cov_urbanCovariate 5、您的家庭所在地?(城市=1,农村=0)
Other columns
item_textNot documented Not documented by the IRW; see the source’s codebook.made in the build script

What item codes and covariate values stand for is in the codebook released with the source data.

Get the data

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Or load it directly in R or Python (both need a free Redivis account; the first call opens a browser to sign in):

# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
df <- irw_fetch("liu_2025_learning_motivation")
# Python
pip install irw

import irw
df = irw.fetch("liu_2025_learning_motivation")

How to cite

@article{Liu_2025, title={Meaning in life, positive cognition, and learning motivation: A mediational analysis among Chinese college students}, volume={20}, ISSN={1932-6203}, url={http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0330447}, DOI={10.1371/journal.pone.0330447}, number={9}, journal={PLOS One}, publisher={Public Library of Science (PLoS)}, author={Liu, Shi-hong and Gong, Xiao-li and Ji, Qi and Li, Qiao-qiao and Kong, Ming-hui and Du, Xiao-hui and Xiang, Lei-ying and Zhu, Zhi-ru}, editor={Tilga, Henri}, year={2025}, month=Sept, pages={e0330447} }

Version and provenance

IRW versionv549
Redivis datasetitem_response_warehouse_3 v13.0
Redivis dataset DOI10.57761/gpg7-sg87
Manifest pin for this IRW versionv13.0
Metadata sourceirw_meta v39.0