Communication Competence and Axiological Motivation as Predictors of Institutional Research Productivity

Victor M. Cajala & Melinda Lumanta

Volume 2 Issue 2 December 2022

Abstract

This study aims to probe if the communicative competence and axiological motivation of maritime faculty members in selected MHEIs in the Philippines are significant attributing factors in the goal to produce, publish and present research. Applying the predictive correlational research design, the study generally intends to determine the predictive level of axiological motivation and communicative competence towards the measured values of research productivity. The respondents of the study are 102 maritime faculty members from selected MHEIs in the Philippines. Cluster sampling was employed to determine the regional origin of the respondents while simple random sampling was used to randomly select respondents from each MHEI representing a certain region. A researcher-made questionnaire was used as instrument in yielding the data of the study. Results revealed that, generally, the institutional research productivity of the maritime faculty members is fair while their presentation and publication efforts were poor. On variable relationships, a significant relationship exists between communicative competence and axiological motivation while no significant relationship between axiological motivation and research productivity was yielded. In terms of predictability, only communicative competence was found to be a significant predictor of research productivity. As to the significance and predictive power of the model, it suggests that the model is significant. This means that the use of the said regression model in predicting the research productivity of maritime faculty members is significantly better than when prediction is done by chance.

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Cajala, V.M. & Lumanta, M. (2022). Communication Competence and Axiological Motivation as Predictors of Institutional Research Productivity. The Research Probe, Volume 2 Issue 2, pp. 154 - 162.