Tests of Between-Subjects Effects

As regards the final reason for taking up a higher degree – for “enjoying an intellectual 
challenge, there was only separate effect of age on this scale. In other words, at p<.05 students’ 
age ranges significantly had an impact on their interests in intellectual challenges (table 9). 
Graph 4 showed that students over 54 years old obtained significantly higher mean score in 
this scale than those who were from 25 to 54 years old at p<.05. It was quite interesting to find 
out that generally, the older students were more interested in a particular of interest and 
intellectual challenges while the younger were keener on career advancement and employers’ 
expectation. 
Table 9. Separate and joint effects of student gender and student age on their interests in a 
higher degree due to intellectual challenge 
Tests of Between-Subjects Effects 
Dependent Variable: Intellectual challenge 
Source 
F 
Sig. 
Corrected Model 
3.244 
.001 
Intercept 
7393.781 
.000 
q17gend 
6.351 
.012 
q18age 
3.497 
.008 
q17gend * q18age 
2.335 
.054 
Graph 4.

Overall, it could be reported that students’ genders had no significant effect on why students 
being interested in higher degrees. Yet it was interestingly found that their age did make 
difference in several particular reasons namely career advancement, employers’ expectation, 

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