The relation between girl students’ identification and mental health with educational motivation assessment

Identity is a psychosocial structure which has been formed before adolescence. Erickson and some other psychologists believe that, having a tendency for identification takes place during adolescence According to Erickson's opinion, school and university are the opportunities that support individual in life choices and a stable identity formation which provides them a frame of reference for making decisions, problem-solving and facing to daily difficulties.Educational motivation is an actuator motor for the effort to succeed and feel the joy of it.The progress motive is one of the most important everyone's acquired motives which was stated by Murray for the first time. A high progress motive leads individual to perfection and appropriate function. Educational motivation is influenced by different factors such as family and social connections, personality, mental heath and identity. One of psychologists’ concerns is mental health and identity issue and the effects it has on life aspects, specifically in academic communities where an appropriate identity formation has an important role in students’ operation. So, the present assay studies the identity and mental health relation on students’ educational motivation. The research method is correlation, stated society includes 19353 girls of Rasht high schools and the sample volume is 390 students considering 5% risk of loss. Stated samples are selected by assorting random sampling method. Research instruments are identity style questionnaire, mental health questionnaire, ISM educational motivation questionnaire of McInnerni and Sinclair. Findings are as follows: A relation exists between educational motivation with identity and mental health. A relation exists between educational motivation with identity styles. A relation exists between educational motivation with mental health status.