Iranian Population Studies

Iranian Population Studies

Migration and Motivonia: The Role of Wellbeing and Well-Willing on English as a Foreign Language Learners’ Desire to Migration

Authors
Babak Huseynpur 1
Hossein Sadeghoghli 2
Afsar Rouhi 3
1 Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, Sarab Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sarab, Iran. E-mail: babak.elsan@gmail.com
2 Assistant Professor, Department of English, Sarab Branch, Islamic Azad University, Sarab, Iran (Corresponding Author). E-mail: hsadeg2000@yahoo.com
3 Associate Professor, University of Mohaghegh Ardabili, Ardabil, Iran. E-mail: afsarrouhi@uma.ac.ir
10.22034/jips.2021.254325.1085
Abstract
In recent years, the tendency to emigrate among Iranians has greatly expanded. Therefore, in this study, employing the framework of Motivonia (motivational wellbeing) as a new theoretical perspective in the field of wellbeing, the effect of wellbeing and well-willing among English language learners on their desire to emigrate has been investigated. Through convenient sampling, 193 English language learners  entered the study. The learners were either English students of the Islamic Azad University of Islamshahr or pupils of six secondary schools of Baharestan County who were attending English courses in private language institutes along with their school English courses. The data were collected via a self-developed questionnaire in the period from October to the end of December 2019. The results of multiple linear regression indicated that the learners’ L2-domain engaging wellbeing, desire to improve their future wellbeing (as an indicator of well-willing), and two dimensions of general wellbeing (i.e. social relationships and psychological wellbeing) had significant effects on their desire to emigrate. Thus, in order to prevent the emigration of human capital, the government can turn the Iranian view of promoting wellbeing within the borders through fact-based policies.
Keywords
migration
motivonia
wellbeing
well-willing
English language learning
positive psychology

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Iranian Population Studies
Volume 6, Issue 2 - Serial Number 12
December 2020
Pages 147-181

  • Receive Date 26 October 2020
  • Revise Date 09 January 2021
  • Accept Date 15 December 2020
  • Publish Date 21 November 2020