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The academic intrinsic motivation is regarded as the main interesting field of many educational and psychological studies and researches during the last years. Therefore the aim of this study is: 1) Determine the level of academic intrinsic motivation of secondary schools' students. 2) Identifying the statistical differences of academic intrinsic motivation according to the variables of gender i.e., (male, female) and specialization, i.e., (literary, scientific). Motivation and psychological security which are related to the secondary schools' students. A stratified random sample of (360) male and female students of the three stages of the literary and scientific secondary schools during (2010-2011) studying year. To achieve the aims of the research, the researcher has built an academic intrinsic motivation scale which consisting of five components specified by selected experts; these components are: curiosity, achievement motivation, aspiration level, challenge, and independent mastery. The researcher has verified the psychometric characteristics of the designed measure by specifying the validity by two methods: superficial validity and construction validation. Also, she extracts the measure reliability by test-retest method and Cronbach Alpha method and according to these methods the reliability coefficient was (0.80) and (0.90) respectively. The final form of the scale consists of 39 suitable items for measurement of academic intrinsic motivation, The researcher applied the research sample and after the statistical processing and analyzing of data by using T-test for one sample and, Pearson correlation coefficient, chi square, and Cronbach Alpha equation, the following results were attained: 1) The individuals of research sample have high level of academic intrinsic motivation. 2) There are no statistical indicative differences in the level of academic intrinsic motivation according to the variables of gender and specialization According to the attained results, the researcher lists some recommendations: 1) Exhortation of the schools' management offices to exploit the high level of academic motivation of the secondary schools' students and encourage them to work to confirm the psychological security. The main research suggestion is that: 2) Accomplishing a study similar to this research which considers other samples such as: children, elementary schools' students, orphans or fatherless children, superior students, etc. (Published Abstract)