liu_2025_learning_motivation

5,520 responses from 345 respondents to 16 items.

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

Columns

cov_agecov_gendercov_only_childcov_urbaniditemitem_textresp

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# R
install.packages("remotes")
remotes::install_github("itemresponsewarehouse/Rpkg")
library(irw)
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# Python
pip install irw

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

Version and provenance

IRW versionv393
Redivis datasetitem_response_warehouse_3 v7.0
Redivis dataset DOI10.57761/pqqn-pm43
Manifest pin for this IRW versionv7.0
Metadata sourceirw_meta v23.0