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The influence of psychological factors on academic achievement is a topic of extensive research. The current study's primary objective is to investigate the internal and external elements that influence learning strategy and impact Malaysian undergraduate students' academic performance. 211 of undergraduate students from a public university on Malaysia's East Coast participated using the convenience sampling technique and were given a set of structured questions. In order to examine the data, SPSS was used. The link between internal and external elements of the learning approach was discovered using the Pearson Correlation Coefficient. According to the results of the correlation analysis, there is a strong correlation between internal and external elements that affect learning. In addition, there is a high positive correlation between internal and external learning elements.
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To Cite this Article: Safian, N., Ngah, N. S., Hussain, A. M., Yaacob, M. A, Ramdan, M. R., & Rahmat, N. H. (2023). Is There A Relationship between Internal and External Factors in Learning? International Journal of Academic Research in Business and Social Sciences, 13(9), 1444–1460.
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