Abstract:
As Pakistan is going through a rough phase and a lot of people are unemployed, students start
working along with their studies to support their families. Some students start working to manage
their expenses on their own. While working they may encounter low motivation and weak
emotional control. Thus, this quantitative study aims to study about the relationship between
academic locus of control and academic motivation. To study about this relationship, 400 students,
200 working and 200 non-working students were taken as a sample. Data was collected using a
demographic sheet which was self-designed, and the tools AMS-C and ALOC-R for academic
motivation and academic locus of control. After collecting the data, it was analyzed by using SPSS
version 20. Correlation analysis was conducted which shows that internal locus of control has
strong and negative correlation with intrinsic and extrinsic motivation. External locus of control
exhibits similar results with intrinsic motivation while, it depicted significant but strong and
negative correlation with extrinsic motivation. Internal and external locus of control has a positive
weak correlation with Amotivation. Regression analysis depicted that academic locus of control is
predicting academic motivation. The result of T-test indicated no gender differences and no
differences in the Academic motivation and Academic locus of control in working and non working students.
Keywords: academic motivation, academic locus of control, undergraduate working and non working students
