Effect of Teachers' Empathy on Students' Motivation Academic Article

abstract

• The present study investigates whether teachers' empathy toward students affects students' motivation. The Teacher Empathy Questionnaire and the Multi-dimensional Motivational Instrument were administered to 83 students in Grades 3 to 8 from a metropolitan inner-city parochial school. The analyses indicate that teachers' empathy significantly affected students' post-academic self-concept and post-achievement motivation, even after controlling for the effects of students' prior motivation.

authors

• Waxman, Hersh

published proceedings

• Psychological Reports

author list (cited authors)

• Waxman, H. C.

citation count

• 4

complete list of authors

• Waxman, Hersholt C

publication date

• October 1983

publisher

• SAGE Publications  Publisher

published in

• Psychological Reports  Journal

keywords

• Pediatric

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.2466/pr0.1983.53.2.489

start page

• 489

end page

• 490

volume

• 53

issue

• 2

URL

• http://dx.doi.org/10.2466/pr0.1983.53.2.489