Investigating the mediating Role of Students Academic Optimism on the Relationship between School Academic Optimism and Students Self-Efficacy
The aim of this study was to investigating the mediating role of students’ academic optimism on the relationship between school academic optimism and students’ self-efficacy. The research method was correlational descriptive. 296 students were selected by stage sampling. The data were gathered by us...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fas |
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University of Isfahan
2017-10-01
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| Series: | پژوهشنامه روانشناسی مثبت |
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| Online Access: | http://ppls.ui.ac.ir/article_22668_2a6f5253b88dbf52ebc9f7fec513946c.pdf |
| Summary: | The aim of this study was to investigating the mediating role of students’ academic optimism on the relationship between school academic optimism and students’ self-efficacy. The research method was correlational descriptive. 296 students were selected by stage sampling. The data were gathered by using of three questionnaires: School Academic Optimism Hoy et al, Student Academic Optimism Tschannen-Moran et al, and Self-efficacy Morris. Structural equation modeling (path analysis) was used for data analysis. The direct effect of school academic optimism on student academic optimism was positive and significant. Also, the direct effect of student academic optimism on self-efficacy was positive and significant. In addition, the results showed that the school academic optimism had an indirect effects on self-efficacy through student academic optimism. The path analysis result indicate that the conceptual model is good fitting the data. Therefore, it is possible to take a positive step towards improving students' self-efficacy by increasing school academic optimism and student academic optimism. |
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| ISSN: | 2476-4248 2476-3705 |