Mahdi Akbari; habib alah naderi; Jalil Fathabadi; Omid Shokri
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The purpose of this article was to investigate the effect of important variables of antecedent and postpositional approach to study students. The proposed model was implemented on undergraduate students of three universities of Iran, Shahid Beheshti University , University of Tehran, University of Science ...
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The purpose of this article was to investigate the effect of important variables of antecedent and postpositional approach to study students. The proposed model was implemented on undergraduate students of three universities of Iran, Shahid Beheshti University , University of Tehran, University of Science and Technology. 692 undergraduate students from three universities were selected by relative stratified sampling. In order to collect data from Basic psychological Needs scales (BPN) by Deci & Ryan (2000), Dundee Ready Educational Environment Measure) DREEM ( by Dundee (2000), Academically Motivation Questionnaire (AM) by Harter (1981), Approaches to Study Skills Inventory for Students (ASSIST) by Tait & Entwistle (1979), The Academic Success Inventory for College Student(ASICS) by Prevat et al .(2002), academic satisfaction of Turkzadeh and Mohtaram (2012) and Generic Skills Development (GSD) By Lizzio et al. (2002) have been used. The reliability of Cronbach's alpha of the instruments was obtained between 0.72 to0.93 and the construct validity of the instruments was evaluated by confirmatory factor analysis. Findings showed that the proposed research model was able to explain about 32% of the surface approach to study, 6% of the variance of the deep approach to study and 26% of the variable variance of students' learning outcomes. The results showed that the basic psychological needs and academic environment encourage students to use more of a surface approach to study and less of deep approach to study. .
Parvin Salehzadeh; Jallil Fathabadi
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The present study aimed to construct a psychometric version of the Persian version of a health-oriented lifestyle behaviors questionnaire among a group of Iranian students. The present study was composed of two stages, in general. In the first stage, the researcher tried to identify the most commonly ...
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The present study aimed to construct a psychometric version of the Persian version of a health-oriented lifestyle behaviors questionnaire among a group of Iranian students. The present study was composed of two stages, in general. In the first stage, the researcher tried to identify the most commonly used behavioral models of students based on contemporary theories of motivation for academic achievement. With the aim of forming a bank of questions, the researcher, with the help of two specialists in educational psychology and Psychometric, developed the bank's initial version of questions that included various forms of behavioral models. Then, the researcher, using a deductive approach and with the help of detailed analysis techniques, selected the most appropriate items for each behavioral model. In the second stage, the researcher, by adopting a deductive approach while analyzing the structure of the developed tool, provided evidence in defense of the technical characteristics of the validity and reliability of the tool. The results of confirmatory factor analysis based on AMOS software showed that multidimensional structure of academic health facilitating behaviors including academic optimism, academic engagement, …, as well as multidimensional structure of disincentive behaviors such as learned helplessness, avoidance of seeking help, academic procrastination, …, and perfectionism with data were shown to fit well. In addition, the results of the common variance of the multiple forms of facilitating and preventing of educational health with emotions of academic achievement, academic self-efficacy and perceived academic stress showed that the health-oriented lifestyle questionnaire has constructive validity. The results of this research provided evidence in defense of theoretical logic of the health-oriented educational lifestyle questionnaire, and on the other hand, showed that this tool was used to measure the concept of behaviors of the health-oriented educational lifestyle among Iranian students are considered to be a valid and reliable instrument.
