Developing a Model of Academic Incivility among College Students: Self-Determination Theory and Locus of Control with the Mediation of Schoolwork Engagement and Academic Entitlement

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1 MS.c. Psychology, Department of Psychology, Institute for Higher Education ACECR Khuzestan, Ahvaz. Iran.

2 Ph.D. Educational Psychology, Department of Psychology, Institute for Higher Education ACECR Khuzestan, Iran.

3 Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Institute for Higher Education ACECR Khuzestan, Ahvaz. Iran.

Abstract

The present study aimed to investigate the causal model of academic incivility based on self-determination theory and locus of control with the mediation of task engagement and academic entitlement. The statistical population included all female and male undergraduate students of Khuzestan Jihad Daneshgahi University (N=2513), from which 200 participants selected through a multi-stage random sampling method. Participants completed Participants completed questionnaires, including the Deci and Ryan’s (1985) Self-Determination, the Schoolwork Engagement (2018), Rotter’s (1966) Locus of Control, Farrell et al.’s (2016) Academic Incivility and Chowning and Campbell’s (2009) Academic Entitlement. The proposed model evaluated through structural equation modeling using SPSS and AMOS software, version 24. According to the results, the proposed model had a good fit with the data. The results showed that, among all direct hypotheses, the path between autonomy and academic procrastination, and internal locus of control and academic procrastination were not significant. The indirect hypotheses examined using the bootstrap method by Preacher and Hayes (2008), and the results showed that autonomy and academic incivility had an indirect relationship through task engagement and academic entitlement. Additionally, the constructs of task engagement and academic entitlement also indirectly involved in the relationship between internal and external locus of control and academic incivility. Based on the results of this study, the model of academic incivility based on self-determination theory and locus of control with the mediation of task engagement and academic entitlement had a good fit.

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