“…The study was conducted for three important reasons. First, although the majority of previous research has focused on the relationships between many variables such as academic motivation, academic achievement, self-efficacy, and learning motivation (Areepattamannil, 2014;Çekim & Aydın, 2018;Çetin, 2015;Datu & Yang, 2019;Karaman et al, 2020;Klem & Connell, 2004;Koca & Dadandı, 2019;Liu & Hou, 2018;Önder et al, 2014;Sıcak & Başören, 2015;Zorbaz, 2018), this study examined whether academic amotivation predicts academic achievement in middle school students. Secondly, in the existing literature in Turkey, little is known about the extent to which amotivation could predict academic achievement in a sample of middle school students (e.g., Akgümüş, 2020;Aydın & Çekim, 2017).…”