The Role of Satisfying of Basic Psychological Needs and Goal Orientation in Predicting Academic Engagement of University Students

Subject Areas : Educational Psychology

Fatemeh Shariati ¹ , Ali Zeinali ²

1 - Department of Psychology, Urmia Branch, Islamic Azad University, Urmia, Iran
2 - Department of Psychology, Khoy Branch, Islamic Azad University, Khoy, Iran

Received: 2021-01-30 Accepted : 2021-07-03 Published : 2022-05-22

Keywords: Basic Psychological Needs, goal orientation, Academic Engagement,

Abstract :

Present research aimed to determine the role of satisfying of basic psychological needs and goal orientation in predicting academic engagement of university students. This study was cross-sectional from type of correlation. The research population was all students of Islamic Azad University of Urmia branch in 2019-20 academic years with number of 13000 students, which from them based on Cochran's formula 400 students were selected by available sampling method as a sample. The research instruments were the satisfying of basic psychological needs scale (Deci & Ryan, 2000), revised goal orientation scale (Elliot & Murayama, 2008) and academic engagement questionnaire (Schaufeli & et al, 2002). Data were analyzed by Pearson correlation coefficients and multiple regression with enter model in SPSS-19 software. The findings showed that need to autonomy, competence, relatedness and goal orientation of mastery approach, mastery avoidance, performance approach and performance avoidance had a positive and significant relationship with academic engagement. Also, the variables of satisfying of basic psychological needs and goal orientation significantly could 63 percent of variance of academic engagement (P<0.05) that in this prediction the variables of need to competence and performance goals of approach and avoidance had not significant effect (P>0.05). Therefore, to improve the academic engagement of students can be satisfied the basic psychological needs and taught each of the goal orientation, which satisfying the need to autonomy and teaching mastery approach goal should be priority

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