The Mediating Role of Achievement Goal Orientation in ‎Relation between Core Self-Evaluation and Academic ‎Performance of Physics

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 department of educational sciences, faculty of psychology and educational sciences, Semnan ‎University, Semnan, Iran

2 Associate Professor of Psychology, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sience. Semnan University

3 department of clinical psychology, faculty of psychology and educational sciences, Semnan ‎University, Semnan, Iran.‎

Abstract

Abstract ‎
‎The purpose of the present study was to investigate the ‎mediating role of the achievement goal orientation with the core self-‎evaluation and academic performance of physics. The present study was a ‎correlational study‏.‏‎ Participants were 221 students (90 girls, 131 boys) in the ‎third year of high school in Qaem Shahr in the academic year of ‎‏2017-2016‏‎. ‎Random sampling method was used. Participants completed the questionnaire ‎of the achievement goal orientation (Eliot & McGregory, 2003), and the ‎questionnaire the core self-evaluation Scale. Data were analyzed using ‎Multiple Regression and path analysis. The results showed that the mastery ‎goal orientation predicted physics’ scores significantly. The achievement goal ‎orientation had a mediating role in the structural relationship between the core ‎self-evaluation and physics performance . People ‎with poor self-evaluation were more likely to adopt the avoidance achievement ‎goal orientation, and this was associated with a decline in physics performance. ‎In designing a physics lesson, one should pay attention to the conditions in ‎which students evaluate themselves.‎

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Educational and Scholastic studies

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 02 July 2024

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