Motivation and Learning
Manouchehr Falah; Ahmad Ghazanfari; Maryam Charami; Reza Ahmadi
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The purpose of the present study was to investigate the mediating role of competence perception in the relationship between the perception of teachers' support and academic demotivation of adolescent students. The research method was descriptive-correlation with structural equation modeling method. The ...
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The purpose of the present study was to investigate the mediating role of competence perception in the relationship between the perception of teachers' support and academic demotivation of adolescent students. The research method was descriptive-correlation with structural equation modeling method. The statistical population included all adolescent students of the second stage of high school in Yazd city, who were studying in the academic year 2020-2021. Among them, 421 were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling method. The measurement tools included Harter's (1981) academic motivation questionnaires, textual teacher support perception, McWhirter and O'Neill (2008) and Harter's self-perception (1989). Structural equation modeling (SEM) and SPSS-21, LISREL-8.72 software were used for statistical analysis. Pearson's correlation results showed that there is a significant correlation between academic apathy and the perception of teachers' support and the perception of competence (p<0.05). Also, the results of the path analysis indicated that the perception of teachers' support is related to academic demotivation through the perception of competence. Based on the findings of the research, the perception of competence and the perception of teachers' support have an effective role in reducing academic demotivation in students
parvin farajzadeh; Ahmad Ghazanfari; maryam choramy; Tayebeh Sharifi
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The present study was conducted with the purpose of investigating the effectiveness of training psychological capitals on academic engagement of teacher-students with low academic engagement. The present study was quasi-experimental with pretest, posttest, control group and a two-month follow-up period. ...
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The present study was conducted with the purpose of investigating the effectiveness of training psychological capitals on academic engagement of teacher-students with low academic engagement. The present study was quasi-experimental with pretest, posttest, control group and a two-month follow-up period. The statistical population of the study included female teacher-students at the teachers’ university in the city of Shahr-e-kord in academic year 2018-19. 30 female teacher-students with low academic engagement were selected through purposeful sampling method and randomly placed into experimental and control group (15 students in the experimental group and 15 students in the control group). The experimental group received psychological capitals training (Akhoondi, 2017) during two-and-a-half months in ten ninety-minute sessions. The applied questionnaires in this study included academic engagement questionnaire (Fredricks, Bloomenfield, and Paris, 2004) and academic procrastination (Talkman, 1991). The data of the study were analyzed by repeated measurement ANOVA. The results showed that psychological capital training has a significant effect on the academic procrastination of teacher-students with low academic engagement (p˂0.001). The findings of the present study showed that psychological capitals training by applying the concepts such as hope, self-efficacy conception, resilience, and optimism can be used as an efficient training to decrease academic procrastination of teacher-students with low academic engagement. Key words: Training psychological capitals, academic procrastination, academic engagement, teacher student
