Investing the Relationship between Parental Media Literacy and Socio-Economic Status with Motivation for Secondary School Student's Academic Achievement

Subject Areas : social psychology

Shirin Soleymani ¹ (PhD student in curriculum planing, Department of Education, Islamic Azad University, Roudehen branch, Roudehen, Iran.)
Badiozaman Makki Ale Agha ² (Associate professor of Education, Islamic Azad University, Roudehen branch, Roidehen, Iran.)
Aladdin Etemad Ahari ³ (Associate professor of Education, Islamic Azad University, Roudehen branch, Roidehen, Iran.)

Received: 2019-08-18 Accepted : 2020-04-17 Published : 2020-05-21

Keywords: "Media Literacy", "Socio-economic Status", "Academic Achievement Motivation",

Abstract :

This study aimed to Investigating the Relationship between Parental Media Literacy and Socio-Economic Status with Motivation for Secondary School Students` Academic Achievement in Tehran city was done in 1395-96. The study is the practical purpose and information gathering is descriptive, correlational. The statistical society includes the whole female Secondary School Students in Tehran. They were about 50707. To determine the size of the sample using Morgan table and with multi-stage cluster sampling and 380 person were selected. Tools to measure in this research are academic achievement motivation questionnaire (1987), Media literacy questionnaire (kansidine, 2008), and socio-economic status (SES), which after gathering data, data analysis using SPSS, AMOS, and LISREL soft wares were performed. For investigating questionnaire`s Factor Structure, Confirmatory factor analysis, for investigating of research questions, and the relationship among variables of Media literacy and socio-economic status with academic achievement motivation, path Analysis Method were used. The result of correlation between Media literacy and socio-economic status with academic achievement motivation showed that all correlation coefficients are calculated at the alpha level of 0.01 are meaningful (p<0.01). Correlation coefficients among Media literacy and socio-economic status with academic achievement motivation components were positive. The positive coefficients obtained indicate a direct relationship between the variables. So it is concluded that with increasing parental Media literacy and socio-economic, student`s academic achievement motivation will also increase.