Document Type
Article
Publication Date
5-31-2023
Abstract
Motivation, confidence, and internal achievement factors such as locus of control (LOC) and self-efficacy are important in successful learning. A feeling of belongingness might affect students’ confidence, therefore affecting flight training performance. This study explored the relationship between self-reports of social activities and confidence with academic performance and flight performance. Nineteen international students (13m, 6f) with a mean age of 21.42 (SD = 2.29), currently enrolled in a flight training program at a university answered a survey. Significant correlations were found between LOC and confidence in the English language; self-efficacy and number of failures at the end of the Private Pilot course; confidence in the English language and social involvement; and flight training confidence and social involvement. Males reported significantly higher levels of flight training confidence than females. A regression model showed that flight training confidence can be significantly predicted by students’ self-assessed sense of belonging, academic confidence, and LOC.
Repository Citation
Chanoux, S. M.,
& Dattel, A. R.
(2023). International Students Sense of Belongingness and Motivation on Academic and Flight Performance. 22nd International Symposium on Aviation Psychology, 50.
https://corescholar.libraries.wright.edu/isap_2023/38
