"The Relationship between Influencing Factors of Cognitive Failure and Students' Academic Failure"

Subject Areas : Journal of Educational Psychology

Nahid BabaieAmiry ¹ , Mohammad Bagher Kajbaf ² , Mohammad Mehdi Mazaheri ³ , Gholam Reza Manshaee ⁴ , Hooshang Talebi ⁵

1 - Ph.D. Student of Educational Psychology, Department of Psychology, Isfahan (Khorasgan)Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran.
2 - Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, Isfahan University, Isfahan, Iran
3 - Associate Professor of Philosophy, Department of Psychology, Isfahan(Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran.
4 - Associate Professor of Philosophy, Department of Psychology, Isfahan(Khorasgan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran.
5 - Associate Professor of Applied Statistics, Department of Psychology, Isfahan University, Isfahan, Iran.

Received: 2014-08-30 Accepted : 2014-12-07 Published : 2015-03-01

Keywords: Students, academic failure, cognitive failure, Influencing Factors,

Abstract :

The present study investigated Factors affecting cognitive failure including, Age, Sex, occupation, type of degree,  Terms of conditional  and also Cognitive failure associated with Academic failure.  The study is descriptive and correlation.  Statistical Society Includes all students  of Azad University , Yadegar-e-Emam Khomeini (RH) SHahreray  Branch(N=22904). Students were studying in 93-92 first term. Relative cluster random sampling method was used. 384 samples were selected as the main studied participants. . Cognitive Failure Questionnaire (CFQ) and Personal profile were the data collection instruments. Cronbach's alpha for the Cognitive Failures Questionnaire ./79 Obtained. In order to investigate the relationship between variables and comparing them appropriate statistical  procedure, Pearson correlation coefficient, Path Analysis,  T-Test and one – way ANOVA were used. There was not significant discrepancy between cognitive failure and academic failure. Also the relationship between cognitive failure and Sex, occupation, type of degree,  Terms of conditional was  not significant. The relationship between Age and cognitive  failure was Positive. Although cognitive failure predicted Occupational accidents and traffic , but  cognitive failure could not be a predictor of Academic failure. Could be due to the anxiety of test conditions. Because it increases the level of consciousness and cognitive control students.