Psychosocial factors that determine significant learning from intrinsic motivation

Abstract

This article covers the realization of a research work carried out between 2021 and 2022 for the Faculty of Social Sciences, Humanities and Arts of the Autonomous University of Bucaramanga whose intention was to identify the psychosocial factors that determine meaningful learning, from the intrinsic motivation of the students of the Corporación Unidades Técnicas del Oriente – UTO, which had the collaboration of 9 students from the institution of the Administrative Assistance technical career, to whom a semi-structured interview-type research instrument was applied, thus allowing them to know the feeling and think of the participants and in which the personal, school and socio-family conditions were investigated, which affect the intrinsic motivation of the student, therefore, in their meaningful learning. In this way, 3 categories and 12 subcategories were established, which established the orientation, characteristics, and significance, thus determining the most symbolic or figurative factors. The qualitative approach research was developed through the phenomenology method through the focus group technique. The results of the investigation allowed us to consider that the most representative subcategories are: expectations and aspirations, self-concept, the quality of teachers and family dynamics, which broke into the personal category, being a subcategory of the socio-family category.