COVID-19-induced concerns and graduate students' motivation for programme completion in a Nigerian university

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dc.contributor.authorAjani, Oluwatoyin Ayodele
dc.contributor.authorOni, Matthew Taiwo
dc.contributor.authorItasanmi, Sunday Abidemi
dc.coverageUnited States
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dc.date.accessioned2025-11-23T10:39:42Z
dc.date.available2025-11-23T10:39:42Z
dc.date.issued2023
dc.departmentNameLanguages and Social Sciences
dc.description.abstractThis study examined the impact of COVID-19-induced concerns regarding health, finance and learning on graduate students’ motivation for programme completion in Nigeria. A quantitative research method using survey approach was adopted for the study. The study utilized an online survey to gather data from 1846 graduate students from a purposively selected university in Nigeria. A model was proposed to serve as a framework for the analysis of the data collected. The model consisted of four constructs: health concerns, financial concerns, learning concerns and motivation for programme completion. A Partial Least Square- Structural Equation Modeling (PLS-SEM) technique in WarpPLS 7.0 was used for data analysis. Results revealed amongst others that the COVID-19-induced health concerns positively and significantly impacted graduate students’ motivation for programme completion. Additionally, the financial concerns related to the pandemic had a negative significant impact on graduate students’ motivation for programme completion. Further, the study found that COVID-19-induced concerns regarding health influenced graduate students’ concerns regarding finance. Similarly, COVID-19-induced concerns regarding finance significantly influenced graduate students’ learning concerns. Hence, the study suggested that university administrators and other stakeholders should assist graduate students with various forms of financial empowerment schemes, student loans and scholarships that could cushion the effect of the financial fallout of the pandemic on the graduate students and mitigate against possible dropout of the graduate students from graduate studies.
dc.facultyFaculty of Education
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dc.identifier.citationItasanmi, S.A., Ajani, O.A. and Oni, M.T., 2023. COVID-19-induced concerns and graduate students’ motivation for programme completion in a Nigerian university. International Journal of Education and Practice, 11(3), pp. 365-376.
dc.identifier.issn2310-3868 (online)
dc.identifier.issn2311-6897 (print)
dc.identifier.otherhttps://doi.org/10.18488/61.v11i3.3381
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10530/58349
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dc.issuenumber11 / 3
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dc.pages365 - 376
dc.peerreviewedYes
dc.publisherConscientia Beam
dc.subjectCOVID-19-induced concerns
dc.subjectGraduate students
dc.subjectMotivation for programme
dc.subjectcompletion
dc.subjectNigeria
dc.subjectPLS-SEM
dc.titleCOVID-19-induced concerns and graduate students' motivation for programme completion in a Nigerian university
dc.title.journalInternational Journal of Education and Practice
dc.typeJournal Article
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