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. .
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Learning emotions are part of achievement emotions that are explained by the Control – Value Theory. The emotions such as enjoyment, anxiety, shame, relief, hope, hopelessness are emotions that students experience in academic setting. Nevertheless researches concentrate on the anxiety emotion. ...
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Learning emotions are part of achievement emotions that are explained by the Control – Value Theory. The emotions such as enjoyment, anxiety, shame, relief, hope, hopelessness are emotions that students experience in academic setting. Nevertheless researches concentrate on the anxiety emotion. The neglect of these emotions and lack of reliable instrument is one of important problem in educational system of Iran. The statistical community consisted of all undergraduate college students in Iran Shahid Beheshti University in 2013-2014 academic year (N=9421), and the sample consisted of 221 students from different academic disciplines that selected by use of «random sampling». The method developmental survey is used. This study surveys the learning emotions of Iranian Collage students and psychometrics properties (reliability and validity) of «Learning-Related Emotion Scales» (LRES) aimed to it validation for study Iranian college students achievement emotions. The confirmatory factor analysis showed that indexes of model include CFE, GFI, PGFI are fit and factor loads (b, B) are significant and scales have high reliability coefficient. The internal consistency of the scales was significant. So Learning-Related Emotion Scales can be used as a useful instrument for study and research the learning emotions of Iranian college students.
Sahar Pahlavanneshan; Omid Shokri
Volume 4, Issue 16 , July 2014, , Pages 194-216
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چکیده انگلیسی Abstract The main purpose of this study was to examine the metric equivalence the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents (SASA, Puklek, 1997) across gender and age in a sample of adolescents. 500 adolescents for 12 to 18 years old (276 female and 224 male) completed the Social ...
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چکیده انگلیسی Abstract The main purpose of this study was to examine the metric equivalence the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents (SASA, Puklek, 1997) across gender and age in a sample of adolescents. 500 adolescents for 12 to 18 years old (276 female and 224 male) completed the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents. Multigroup confirmatory factor analysis was used to examine the factorial invariance of SASA across sex and age groups. The results of single-group confirmatory factor analysis revealed that the two-factor model of SASA consisted of apprehension and fear of negative evaluation and tension and inhibition in social contact in across sex and age groups good fit to the data. The results of multigroup confirmatory factor analysis indicated cross-group invariance of form, factor loadings, and factor variances and covariances of the SASA across sex and age groups. These findings emphasizing the psychometric equivalence of SASA indicate that factorial validity of SASA is same across sex and age groups. Therefore, these findings indicate that sex and age groups are qualitatively same in dimensional model of expression of cognitive and behavioral forms of social anxiety.
