An empirical study of the influence of university student's self-esteem on motivation to achieve success

Abstract

The article highlights the results of an empirical study of the impact of self-esteem on the motivation to succeed. Self-esteem is a complex personal formation and refers to the fundamental properties of a person. It reflects what a person learns about himself or herself from others, his or her own activity aimed at realizing his or her actions and personal qualities. In the current conditions of socio-economic development of society, one of the most important problems of human existence is the formation of a successful personality. Achieving success for modern students is a complex, multifaceted process of becoming a mature, competent personality as a subject of work, the prominent aspects of which are motivational and volitional and individual psychological characteristics of the personality that determine the specifics of achieving professional success. Success can be viewed as a personal experience of achieving success and as a characteristic feature of a person, which shows how effective and efficient a person is in achieving his or her goals. The analysis of existing studies has suggested the existence of a relationship between self-esteem and motivation to succeed as factors in the formation of a successful personality. The results of empirical studies have been carefully processed in both qualitative and quantitative terms. The mathematical processing of the data showed that self-esteem has a significant impact on motivation to succeed. The analysis of the correlation coefficient shows that the lower the self-esteem, the higher the motivation, and vice versa. Young students with high self-esteem have lower motivation. This may be due to the fact that young people with low self-esteem spend a lot of time self-analyzing and trying to strengthen their weaknesses through self-knowledge. This means they are motivated to become better in order to succeed. Students who are overconfident have lower motivation. They tend to believe that all their abilities, skills, status in society, etc. are at a high enough level, and therefore they rely on them.