Relationship between Self-efficacy, Happiness, Life Satisfaction and Perceived Social Support with Academic Achievement Motivation Case study: University students of Bandar Anzali

Subject Areas : Educational Science

karim kiakojoury ¹ , tiz dast taher ²

1 - faculty member,Anzali, Islamin Azad University
2 - Taher Tizdast, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Tonekabon Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tonekabon, Iran.

Received: 2020-07-19 Accepted : 2021-11-30 Published : 2021-11-22

Keywords: happiness, Self-efficacy, life satisfaction and perceived social support, motivation for academic achievement,

Abstract :

The purpose of this research is investigate the relationship between self-efficacy, happiness, life satisfaction and perceived social support with students academic achievement motivation. The statistical society of this study is university students of Bandar Anzali branch. Appropriate sample selected by sampling method, Morgan's table used to determine the sample size in this study that the number of samples are 246 people for the community with a frequency 3500 people. The data collection tool is a valid questionnaire. Using questionnaires self-efficacy Sherer et al (1982), happiness Oxford (1989), life satisfaction of Diener et al. (1985), perceived social support (family and friends) Prosidano and Heller's (1986) and achievement motivation Wallerand et al (1989). After collecting the questionnaire, Cronbach's alpha was used to measure reliability for each of the factors. SPS software has been used to analyze data for descriptive statistics, Pearson test and simultaneous regression. The test results showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between self-efficacy variable and academic achievement motivation; There is a positive and significant relationship between happiness variability and academic achievement motivation; There is a positive and significant relationship between life satisfaction variable and academic achievement motivation; There is a positive and significant relationship between the perceived social support variable and academic achievement motivation.