Abstract:
This research was made to find out the relationship between self-awareness and self motivation
of Technology and Engineering undergraduates of South Eastern University. Hundred and
twenty (120) undergraduates were selected using simple random sampling from second year
students of Faculty of Technology and Engineering of South Eastern University of Sri Lanka.
The tools for self-awareness and self motivation were extracted from the Emotional Intelligent
Scales developed by Anukool Hyde, Sanjyot Dethe and Upinder Dhar, (2002) to find out the
level of self-awareness and self-motivation of undergraduate students. The personal data
schedule designed by the investigator was used to obtain relevant socio-demographic
information. All scales were pretested through a pilot study to ensure the reliability and validity
prior to the final investigation. The samples were communicated by the researcher and data were
acquired through questionnaire. The main objectives of this research were to find out the
relationship between self-awareness and self-motivation of Technology students and the
difference of self-awareness and self-motivation basis on gender. „t‟-test and correlation were
used for the statistical analysis. The result revealed that there is a positive significant relationship
between self-awareness and self-motivation. However difference among demographic variables,
faculty of study and gender are statistically not significant.
