Date of Publication

4-2023

Document Type

Dissertation

Degree Name

Doctor of Philosophy in Educational Psychology

Subject Categories

Educational Psychology

College

Br. Andrew Gonzalez FSC College of Education

Department/Unit

Counseling and Educational Psychology

Thesis Advisor

Jerome A. Ouano

Defense Panel Chair

John Addy S. Garcia

Defense Panel Member

Ma. Alicia Bustos-Orosa
Christine Joy A. Ballada
Estesa Xaris Q. Legaspi
Dorothy Joann Lei Labrador-Rabajante

Abstract/Summary

This mixed-methods study aimed to understand why college students disengaged from flexible learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. Grounded in self-determination theory, the study proposed that pandemic-era flexible learning was a need-thwarting social context, with instructors, peers, and people at home as socializing agents who influenced the students' appraisals of psychological need frustration (PNF). The study had three phases, with each phase building on the previous one. Phase 1 involved focus group discussions (N = 27 in five groups) sampled purposively from a state university in northeastern Mindanao. The thematic analysis of their narratives led to the identification of seven eight themes of need-thwarting behaviors of various social agents, seven themes of appraisals of need frustration relative to those behaviors, and seven themes of consequences relative to those appraisals. Phase 2 involved the development of a context-specific measure of PNF in flexible learning. The validation process, which employed content validation, pilot testing, exploratory factor analysis (n = 190), confirmatory factor analysis, and hierarchical regression analyses (n - 385), led to a five-factor PNF measure. Phase 3 employed structural equation modeling and mediation analyses (n = 684) to test an integrated model of behavioral disengagement, revealing that global PNF-FL increased the likelihood of behavioral disengagement through amotivation and that every first-order dimension of PNF-FL had varying effects. The study has theoretical implications for researchers, as well as practical implications for both college students and practitioners, suggesting the need for collective action to foster adaptive use of flexible learning in the post-COVID world.

Keywords: psychological need frustration, behavioral disengagement, amotivation, flexible learning, Filipino college students, mixed methods

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Language

English

Format

Electronic

Physical Description

194 leaves

Keywords

Open learning; Frustration; College students--Philippines; Mixed methods research

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4-13-2025

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