Comparative Research Of Adult's Learning Motivation From The Sex Angle

With the ideas of the lifelong education, lifelong study and Study society coming out these year, adult's study has been paid more attention. And any learning activity comes from certain study demand and study motivation. Therefore, studying adult's learning motivation will be helpful not only to adult's study and the adult pedagogue and the adult education organization,but also to learning and the harmonious society's construction.The paper investigates the Shanghai TV university 593 adult students'learning motivation of the participation in the study or the education from the occupation, the public relations, the outside expected, the escape or the stimulation, the interest, the culture, the study, the custom, competed and display these ten latitudes. And carried on the comparison from sex., finding that not only the female and the male has the difference in the learning motivation sequence , for example the female puts the competition orientation in the first place, but the male puts the learning orientation in the first place. Also the female and the male has the difference in each motive orientation, for example, compared with the male, the female's learning motivation displays intensely in the professional orientation, the study orientation, the custom orientation and the competition orientation aspect.In addition, the paper has also analyzed the existence difference reasons of feminine and the masculine on learning motiveation which includ basic situation, social factor as well as both sexes own difference. Social factor involves in the occupation sex discrimination, the occupation development barrier, the social role and the family role conflicts these three aspects, and both sexes own difference has contained in the physiological difference and the psychological difference.Finally, according to the reasons of difference between female and the masculine on learning motivation , giving the measures that the adult education proposes.