Modeling the relationship between the age of entering the school on academic achievement with mediating of spiritual intelligence, social skills and creativity

Subject Areas : social psychology

paria jangi ¹ , Afroz GholamAli ² , hasan asadzadeh ³ , ali delavar ⁴

1 - Ph.D student in Educational Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research Branch, Department of Psychology, Tehran, Iran
2 - Master of Psychology of Exceptional Children University of Tehran
3 - Associate Professor of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Allameh Tabatabaei University
4 - Professor of Measurement and Allameh Tabataba'i University

Received: 2018-06-08 Accepted : 2018-12-16 Published : 2019-01-21

Keywords: spiritual intelligence, Academic Achievement, Creativity, social skills, Age of entry into the school,

Abstract :

This research aims to study the modeling of academic achievement based on the age of entry into the school with mediating of spiritual intelligence, social skills and creativity were done in students and it the type of correlation research based on structural equation modeling technique , in particular regression equations (combining Route Analysis and second Level Factor Analysis ). In this study, for determining the sample size according to the number of variables observed and assigning a coefficient of 15 for each variables, and taking into account the probability of having incomplete questionnaires,250 were selected as sample size. The statistical population of this study was 1472 students of all 10th grade elementary school students of Urmia high school in the academic year of 2017-2018.Data collection tools were used, King’s Spiritual Intelligence Scale, Inderbitzen&Fooster Social Skills Scale, and Torrance Creativity Scale. The findings showed that the research model was confirmed and, in general, 26% of academic achievement can be explained by the age of entry into the school, the spiritual intelligence, social skills and creativity. Also, entering the school with the mediation of spiritual intelligence, social skills and creativity showed an indirect effect on academic achievement. The results of this study emphasized the necessity of the role of the age of entry into the school, as well as the role of moderating variable of spiritual intelligence, social skills and creativity by students, which could provide applied ideas to improve the psychological state to counselors and learners.