Relationship between cognitive function and prevalence of decrease in intrinsic academic motivation in adolescents

Table 1 Intrinsic academic motivation scores in the six grades

	Elementary school			Junior high school
	4th grade	5th grade	6th grade	7th grade	8th grade	9th grade
Intrinsic academic motivation score	90.4 ± 14.7	89.6 ± 13.4	88.4 ± 14.1	82.4 ± 0.5*	81.2 ± 12.9*	83.5 ± 11.7^#

Values are presented as the mean ± SD. * p < .05, significantly different from the corresponding values for the 4th-grade group; ^#p < .1, different from the corresponding values for the 4th-grade group (one-way analysis of variance, followed by Student's t-test with Bonferroni correction).

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