An exploratory study of motivational predictors which influence graduationfrom two- and four-year colleges

The present study was undertaken to investigate the extent to which scales measuring four categories of influences predict whether students maintain t heir motivation to achieve a long-term goal such as college graduation. Dat a from 779 students in parallel studies were then compared using a path ana lysis to ascertain whether scales for these same four categories of variabl es were useful as predictors that could influence graduation from both two- year colleges and four-year colleges.