Academic Satisfaction of High School Students: The Role of Positive Experiences in School in Mediating Academic Optimism, Academic Engagement, and School Attachment

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1 M.Sc. in Educational Psychology, Department of Psychology,‎ Khoy Branch‎, ‎Islamic Azad University, Khoy, Iran.

2 Associate Professor, De‎partment of Psychology, Khoy Branch, Islamic Azad University, Khoy, Iran.

10.30473/etl.2025.70971.4185

Abstract

The present study conducted to determine the role of ‎positive experiences at ‎school through academic optimism, academic engagement, and attachment to ‎school on the model fit of academic ‎satisfaction of high school students. This was a correlational descriptive study ‎conducted with ‎the statistical method of structural equation modeling. The statistical ‎population of the research was all ‎the high school students of the first and second term of Chaipare ‎city (including 3352 students) in the ‎academic year 1402-1401. The sample size ‎determined by observing the ‎minimum number of 372 people, according to Cohen's formula. The ‎participants in the research ‎selected by multi-stage cluster random sampling method. To collect data, the ‎Academic ‎Satisfaction Scale (Lent et al.; 2005), Positive Experiences at ‎School ‎Scale (Feuerlang et al.; 2014), ‎Academic Optimism Scale ‎‎ (Schengen Moran et al.; 2013), and School ‎engagement Measure ‎‎(Fredericks ‎et al. 1993) used. Data analysis performed using Amos24 and SPSS26 software and with the help ‎of structural equation analysis. The ‎results showed that positive experiences at school both directly ‎and indirectly through academic ‎optimism, academic engagement, and school attachment have a ‎positive and significant effect on ‎students' academic satisfaction (P<0.01). Therefore, according to the ‎findings of the present ‎research, by increasing the level of positive experiences at school, academic ‎optimism, academic ‎engagement and school attachment can be increased, and through that, students' ‎academic ‎satisfaction can be improved

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Research in School and Virtual Learning
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October 2025
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