Javad Amani Saribagloo; Firozeh Sepehrian-Azar; Shahram Vahedi
Volume 2, Issue 5 , July 2015, , Pages 43-54
Abstract
Alienation is the state or experience of being isolated from a group or an activity to which one should belong or in which one should be involved. Adolescents who are alienated often become adults who are socially alienated, who live in poverty, and who are politically powerless. The aim of current research ...
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Alienation is the state or experience of being isolated from a group or an activity to which one should belong or in which one should be involved. Adolescents who are alienated often become adults who are socially alienated, who live in poverty, and who are politically powerless. The aim of current research was multi level analysis of the relationship between school culture, basic psychological needs and adolescents' academic alienation. 1029 high school students of Urmia city were randomly selected through multiphase cluster sampling method and answered to academic alienation, school culture and basic psychological needs questionnaires. Using HLM software for data analysis, the findings revealed that in individual level basic psychological needs (autonomy, competence and relatedness) had negative and significant effect on academic alienation. In school level, the effects of students-teachers relationship and educational opportunity on dependent variable were negative and significant. But the effects of students' relationships and normative expectations weren't significant. In general, research findings emphasize on multi level factors roles in studying academic alienation.
Toraj Hashemi Nosrat Abad; Shahram Vahedi; Javad Amani Saribagloo
Volume 2, Issue 6 , November 2014, , Pages 71-80
Abstract
The aim of current research was to investigate the relationship between school culture, basic psychological needs (autonomy, competence and relation) and academic performance in a form of causal model. For this research, 420 fourth grade male students in a high school in Urmia city were selected by using ...
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The aim of current research was to investigate the relationship between school culture, basic psychological needs (autonomy, competence and relation) and academic performance in a form of causal model. For this research, 420 fourth grade male students in a high school in Urmia city were selected by using cluster sampling method. They answered to school culture and basic psychological needs questionnaires. Path analysis was used for data analysis. The findings revealed that tested model had sufficient fit and predicted 24% of changes of academic performance, 11% need for autonomy, 5% need for competence and 7% of variance of need for relation. Need for autonomy had positive and significant effect on academic performance. The effect of need for competence on academic performance was positive and significant. Also, need for relation had positive and significant effect on academic performance. The effect of school culture on need for autonomy, competence and relation was positive and significant. In general, research findings showed that both individual (e.g. basic psychological needs) and contextual variables (e.g. school culture) have important roles in prediction of students' academic performance.
