Motivations of adult postgraduate students for further advancement in Hong Kong

What is it about?

This research investigates the motivations of adults for postgraduate studies in Hong Kong among general master, EMBA/MBA and doctorate students, focusing on the self-actualization need under Maslow’s model. The questionnaire surveying and related statistics methods are used. The Brief Index of Self-actualization (Sumerlin, & Bundrick, 1996) is applied. The findings are: doctorate students have higher self-actualization motivation than Master students; age only slightly partially supported or largely refuted to covariate with self-actualization motivation; there is no direct results to show that females have higher self-actualization motivation than males. However, on the Factor 3 curiosity (Sumerlin, & Bundrick, 1996) females score higher than males. As this is a factor that measures self-actualization, we could argue that females show higher self-actualization needs than males indirectly in this analysis. Fourth is, there is significant support to show that income covariates with self-actualization motivation.

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