20.500.12556/RUL-176067 The effect of students’academic motivation on their self-perceived digital and sustainability competencies in wood science and technology education The wood and furniture sector faces challenges in adopting digital and sustainability practices, mainly due to a lack of competencies for effective implementation. While current educational reforms in Slovenia emphasize the development of digital and sustainability competencies at all levels of wood science and technology education, the role of motivation, one of the key drivers of learning, in shaping these competencies has not been sufficiently explored. This study investigated how academic motivation affects students,self-perceived digital and sustainability competencies. A survey was conducted among 433 final-year students in wood science and technology education programs, including secondary vocational and technical, short-cycle higher vocational, and higher education institutions.The Academic Motivation Scale was used along with instruments derived from established European digital and sustainability competence frameworks. Structural equation modeling revealed that students’ academic motivation positively predicted their self-perceived generic digital, generic sustainability, and professional digital and sustainability competencies, and explained between 22 and 29%of the variance.Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation were not shownto be distinct dimensions, but formed a unidimensional construct, suggesting that both internal interests and external incentives jointly support the perception of these competencies. Students’academic motivation is a decisive factor for their self-perceiveddigital and sustainability competencies in wood science and technology education. academic motivation sustainability competencies digital competencies wood science and technology education self-assessment self-perception intrinsic motivation extrinsic motivation akademska motivacija trajnostne kompetence digitalne kompetence izobraževanje na področju lesarstva samoocena samopercepcija notranja motivacija zunanja motivacija true false true Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Članek v reviji 2025-11-20 13:53:34 2025-11-20 13:53:41 2026-08-31 11:01:37 0000-00-00 00:00:00 2026 0 0 Str. 267-287 iss. 1 Vol. 21 2026 0000-00-00 Zaloznikova Objavljeno apc 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 630*9 1930-2126 10.15376/biores.21.1.267-2-287 257991171 RAZ_Goropecnik_Luka_2026.pdf RAZ_Goropecnik_Luka_2026.pdf 1 CE26FEB2ADCD041CD21D1B8DB8468A1B a9d1ff630c1463b4312bad43a35bf3dd04eeaea63c1b9abf053779137a0b2e2f 50e06c3f-ed38-11f0-bf92-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=225190 https://ojs.bioresources.com/index.php/BRJ/article/view/25110/2376 1 98647f0f-c60f-11f0-9328-0050569b8976 https://repozitorij.uni-lj.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=222150 Biotehniška fakulteta Filozofska fakulteta 0 0 0