<p>Motivation and psychological capital under the perspective of self-determination and positive psychology, lead the human being to obtain results and the success of professional and personal development. In order to identify if the components of psychological capital are linked to educational motivation in a sample of university students, a questionnaire was applied, in several sessions that lasted approximately 20 minutes, which was answered voluntarily, the data collected was analyzed with structural equations. A good-fit model was obtained, that identified the influence of all the components of psychological capital on the process of intrinsic motivation, which means that students have strong internal motivators to carry out their studies and predict successful performance according to preliminary studies.</p>