Abstract
<jats:p>This chapter discusses a three-level model of learning motivation, which includes the levels of general and academic emotional orientation, as well as the level of specific learning motives. The study used the following methods: «General Emotional Orientation» (Dodonov, 1978), «Academic Emotional Orientation» (Glotova, 2025), «Diagnostics of University Students’ and High School Students’ Learning Motivation» (Badmaeva, 2004), «Academic Motivation Scales» (Gordeeva, Sychev, Osin, 2014), «Comprehensive Assessment of Learning Motivation – Pilot Scales» (Glotova, Shipilova, 2025). The study, conducted using a Google form, was voluntarily and anonymously participated by 86 school students of grades 10–11 and college students. When processing data, correlation analysis (by Spearman) was used. The results of the study confirmed the hierarchical structure of learning motivation, which includes three levels with multiple significant correlations between them; despite the different names of the scales of three methods due to the theoretical and methodological preferences of the authors, a large number of significant correlations have been obtained between these scales; the scales of motives for subject activity in learning correlate more closely with each other than with the scales of communication motives, and vice versa, the scales of communication motives in learning correlate more closely with each other than with the scales of subject activity motives; the three levels of learning motivation are related to the categories of «activity», «actions» and «operations» of learning proposed by A.N. Leontiev (1975).</jats:p>