Academic motivation and anxiety in the academic context are both determinant factors in the student's life, from the emotional and achievement points of view. The aim of this study was to assess motivation and school anxiety of students and to carry out correlation and regression analysis between academic motivation and school anxiety. Children obtained low score of anxiety and moderate score of general motivation, above average levels of extrinsic motivation and under mean levels of intrinsic motivation. Correlation analysis indicated that all correlations were significant and that all of them were positive, except the correlation between anxiety and intrinsic motivation and between intrinsic and extrinsic motivation, which were negative. Regression analysis revealed that extrinsic motivation explains a significant part of anxiety. The data elucidates the existent relation between both types of motivation and school anxiety.
academic motivation; extrinsic motivation; intrinsic motivation; school anxiety
