In collaboration with Payame Noor University and Iran Educational Psychology Association

Document Type : Research

Authors

1 Ms.C., Psychology, Department of Psychology & Educational Sciences, Yazd University

2 Assistant Professor, Educational Psychology, Department of Psychology & Educational Sciences, Yazd Uni-versity

3 Associate Professor, Educational Psychology, Department of Psychology & Educational Sciences, Yazd Uni-versity

Abstract

The aim of present study was to investigate the role of personality trait and dimensions of family communication environment in academic engagement with the mediating role of passion. For this purpose, 375 secondary high school students (200 girls and 175 boys) were selected from district two of Yazd who were studying in the academic year of 2017-18 by multi-stage cluster sampling were selected. The measures of study were the personality trait scale (NEO-FFI) (Costa & McCary, 1992), the family communication environment scale (FCEI) (Fitzpatrick & Ritchie, 1994), the academic engagement scale (Schaufeli et al., 2002) and passion scale (Vallerand et al., 2003). Results of structural equation modeling showed that conscientiousness and expressiveness have direct positive effect on academic engagement. Extraversion from personality traits and structural traditionalism from family communication environment had only positive indirect effect (with mediation of passion) on academic engagement. Therefore, it is possible to introduce latent variable of passion as an effective mediator in the path of the effectiveness of personality and family factors on latent variable of academic engagement.

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