Testing the Causal Model of Academic Engagement Based on Attitudes to Education and Future Career and Academic Self-Steem by Mediating of Academic Buoyancy in Female Students

Subject Areas : Psychology

Laleh Mehri ¹ (Islamic Azad University Ahvaz Branch, Department of Psychology, Ahvaz, Iran.)
Saeed Bakhtiarpour ² (Islamic Azad University Ahvaz Branch, Department of Psychology, Ahvaz, Iran.)
Zahra Eftekharsoaadi ³ (Islamic Azad University Ahvaz Branch, Department of Psychology, Ahvaz, Iran.)
Rezvan Homaie ⁴ (Islamic Azad University Ahvaz Branch, Department of Psychology, Ahvaz, Iran.)

Received: 2021-08-29 Accepted : 2021-09-29 Published : 2021-12-22

Keywords: academic self-steem, Academic buoyancy, Attitudes to education and future career, Academic Engagement,

Abstract :

The research was intended to examine the causal model of academic engagement based on attitudes to education and future career and academic self-steem by mediating of academic buoyancy in female Islamic Azad University students. The statistical population embraced all female students of Ahvaz Islamic Azad University in the academic year of 1398-99. The sample subsumed 299 female students whom were selected by convenient sampling procedure. The research was designed as descriptive of correlational type. To collect data Reeve “Academic Engagement Questionnaires” (2013), Attitudes to Education and Future Career Questionnaires of Hasanlu, Hassan Nejad & Khazaei Pool (2017), Academic Self-Steem Questionnaires of Nouri, Mirshah Jafari & Saadatmand (2015) and Samoelz “Academic Buoyancy Scale” (2004) were implemented. Path analysis method was applied to evaluate the proposed model. The results indicated that all the direct paths except the path of attitudes to education and future career to academic engagement were significant and the indirect paths via academic buoyancy to academic engagement were significant. The findings also showed that the proposed model had an optimum goodness of fit.

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