INTRINSIC AND EXTRINSIC MOTIVATIONAL ORIENTATIONS: A STUDY AMONGTHE COLLEGE STUDENTS

The main purpose of the present research was to investigate the Motivational Orientations o f college students in relation to certain background variables. The sample consisted of 300 students selected from Chennai city. The Work Preference Inventory developed by Amabile et al., (1994) was administered to collect the data. The result shows signifi cant difference in college students Motivational Orientations with respect to their Gender, Degree Studying and Stream of the Study. The result further reveals that the male students have Extrinsic Motivational Orientation and the female students have Intr insic Motivational Orientation.