Document Type : Research
Authors
1 Ph.D. in Educational Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Tehran, Iran
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Birjand University
Abstract
The purpose of this study was to present a causal model of academic avoidance in relation to meaning of education and academic self-efficacy: the mediating role of hope in education.The research method is descriptive-correlational. The population of the study was all students of the second level high school of Khusuf city in the academic year of 2019-20 (equals to 674 students). 255 students were randomly selected as sample. Measures of educational meaning, academic self-efficacy, hope for education, and academic avoidance were used to measure research variables. Evaluation of the proposed model is done by structural equation modeling and Sobel test using SPSS and AMOS software. The results showed that the final model was well-fitted. The results showed that the meaning of education and academic self-efficacy through the hope of education decrease the students' avoidance. Hence, the meaning of education, academic self-efficacy, and hope for education play an important role in predicting academic avoidance. Also, the educational hope has an intermediate role in the relationship between the meaning of education and academic self-efficacy and avoidance of education.
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