Educational Psychology

Abstract This study examined the mediating effect of teacher emotions on the relationship between teachers’ academic optimism and interpersonal teacher behavior model. In a sample consisting of 306 men teachers, the Teacher’ Academic Optimism Scale (TAOS, Woolfolk Hoy, Hoy & Kurz, 2008), the Teacher Emotion Inventory (TEI, Chen, 2016) and the Questionnaire on Teacher Interaction (QTI, Lourdusamy & Khine, 2001) were administered. Structural equation modeling was used to assess the mediating effects of teacher emotions on the relationship between teachers’ academic optimism and interpersonal teacher behavior. Results showed that there is a positive significant correlation between teachers’ academic optimism with positive emotions and positive interpersonal teacher behavior and a negative significant correlation with negative emotions and negative interpersonal teacher behavior. Results also indicated that there is a negative significant correlation between positive emotions with negative interpersonal teacher behavior and a positive significant correlation whit positive interpersonal teacher behavior and there is a negative significant correlation between negative emotions with positive interpersonal teacher behavior and a negative significant correlation whit negative interpersonal teacher behavior. Results showed that the fully mediated model of teacher emotions on the relationship between teachers’ academic optimism and interpersonal teacher behavior had acceptable fit to data. Overall, the results of the present study showed that trying to understand the interpretative capacities of academic optimism in predicting positive and negative models of teacher-student interpersonal behavior can be interpreted in the context of differentiation between positive and negative teachers' emotional experiences.

Abstract Purpose and context: Although distance education is a new phenomenon in Iran, this method of education has been popular and welcomed in the world for many years. The new and relatively unknown method of this educational method in the country indicates the need to examine its strengths and weaknesses. Therefore, the present study was conducted with the aim of comparing the self-efficacy and emotions of teachers in distance education and perception of face-to-face education in the epidemic of COVID-19 in the secondary school of region one of Qom city. Method: This study is a post-event causal-comparative study that was performed on 71 high school teachers in Qom in the academic year 1399-1400. The questionnaires were set at two different times of distance education (current) and perception of face-to-face education (in previous years). Considering that in order to conduct this research, we compared the scores of each person with himself in absenteeism and perception of presence, we used the t2 hoteling method (two-group maneuver) to compare different educational conditions. Conclusion: The results of data analysis showed that F is significant in teacher self-efficacy (and its components) as well as the components of teacher love, pleasure, sadness and anger. In-person training on teacher self-efficacy and its components and the emotions of love, pleasure, sadness and anger in high school during the period of the Quid 19 epidemic. There is no significant difference between the mean of total teacher excitement and the component of teacher fear emotion, which indicates the lack of effect of distance education on total emotion and the component of fear emotion in high school teachers during the COVID-19 epidemic.  

Abstract Although various researchers such as Keller (2018) have tried, to develop comprehensive theory models such as motivational design models, to strengthen the understanding of psychologists and educationalists of differentiation in learners' motivational profiles, but because of the mere emphasis on the paradigm of empiricism and the sheer focus on the logic of quantitative research, certainly, in the process of developing educational programs to reinforce students' motivational positions, they are survived with a deep and comprehensive understanding of the Health-centered educational lifestyle inhibitory behaviors Therefore, the researchers in this study attempted to answer the question by using descriptive phenomenological research method that are the most important antecedent elements of demotivation in Iranian students? For this purpose, 50 students in the seventh and eighth grades were selected from among students of Ray city in Tehran province to reach information saturation level and were interviewed in the form of 12 focus groups of 4-5 peoples. After recording and transcribing the interviews, data were analyzed using Colaizzi method. From the data analysis, eight main themes are included Perceived relevance with life, academic self-efficacy, a sense of control and coercion, intimate relationships, perceived unfairness, lack of interest and attention to the lesson, self-regulation, and classroom experience of emotion were extracted. In sum, the results of the present study align with the mental angles of the comprehensive model of Keller motivational design, it provided further evidence in defense of the interpretive role of the emotional information element in predicting Iranian learners' motivational deficits. In addition, the results of the present study showed that improving the student / teacher / parent interpersonal relationship model of behavior with emphasis on understanding and improving learners' emotional experiences is the most effective way to improve their motivational profile.

Abstract Aim: The purpose of this study was to determine the variations of the daily and weekly cycles of students' mathematical logic. Methods: The research was done in correlation method. The statistical population of the research was 11th grade of female students in human science in Khodabandeh city in 1396-1397. They were selected by random cluster sampling of 36 people in two classes. The test was performed for two weeks in two rounds of morning (8, 9.30, 11) and afternoon (13, 14.30, 16.15). The Horn and ostburg questionnaire (1976) was used to measure the chronotype, and the parallel forms tests of researched mathematical logic were used to measure the mathematical logic. The mixed analysis of variance was used to analyze the data. Results: The results showed that there is a significant difference between the efficiency of students' mathematical logic at different hours of the day(f=4/215, p= ./0001), but the efficiency of mathematical logic was not significant in different days of the week. The efficiency difference of mathematical logic among the morning, afternoon, and evening was significant(f= 2/71, p= ./0004). The efficiency of students' mathematical logic differed significantly in terms of chronotype at different hours of the day(f= 3/028, p< ./0005). Conclusion: Regarding the differences in the efficiency of students' mathematical logic in terms of day and night rhythms as well as the individual differences in terms of chronotype, it is necessary that these results to be considered in the teaching and learning process in educational settings.

Abstract A review of theoretical and empirical evidence about the last movements of thought within the efforts of researchers interested in research field achievement motivation emphasizes the need to investigate further the reasons for distinguishing behavioral models of students in achievement environments, clearly. Focus on the preferred forms of the behavioral models, review of  the behavioral models through systematic attempt argue any differentiation in academic lifestyle of students. Interpretive potential of contemporary theoretical perspectives achievement motivation provides platform capability information about the emergence of these behavioral models are either facilitating or inhibiting in the student academic health. Undoubtedly, relying on the conceptual teaching approach embodied in the Academic Health Psychology, any attempt to emphasize the theoretical foundations of academic lifestyle behaviors causes the need to develop the frontiers of theoretical knowledge and so to create opportunities to identify the functional capacities of this emerging research field. These efforts, in addition to directing the efforts of scientific activities of educational researchers, play undeniable role in improving mental markers of the effectiveness of achievement environment. Hence, in addition to trying to provide new ideas in the field of academic health psychology, the researchers in this study attempt with appropriate emphasis on intellectual powers of contemporary approaches in the realm of achievement motivation take persistent steps to conceptualize and subsequent operationalization of the new concept of the health-oriented academic lifestyle behaviors. Accordingly, based on contemporary theories of achievement motivation, this analytical research offered a conceptual model of behaviors of students in educational settings, depending on their nature partially, improved students' academic health or prevent them. The purpose of this model named as health-oriented academic lifestyle behaviors, is to identify the motivational aspects of those different behavioral patterns picked out by students in academic situations. So that through it, provides the possibility of predicting and mapping profile students' motivation.

Abstract The aim of the present research is to determine the relation of self- esteem instability and fear of negative evaluation with self-handicapping in adolescent students. In a cross sectional research, 386 high school male and female students are selected based on multi-stage sampling in city of Tehran in the academic year of 2010-2011. They filled Jones and Rhodwalt Self-handicapping Scale (SHS), Chabrol, Rousseau, & Callahan Inatability Self-esteem Scale (ISES) and Watson and Friend Fear of Negative Evaluation Scale (FNE). Pearson correlation test, inter- regression and independent T test are used for statistical analysis. The results of Pearson correlation show that self-esteem instability has a positive relation (r=.261, p<0.001) with self-handicapping, and fear of negative evaluation is positively and significantly (r=.٢٨٩, p<0.001) correlated with self-handicapping. Also relation of self-esteem instability and fear of negative evaluation with behavioral self-handicapping and claimed self-handicapping is positive and siginificant. Regression analysis indicates that self-esteem instability and fear of negative evaluation predict self-handicapping in adolescent students. Independent T test shows that self-handicapping in girls is higher than boys. The results indicate that self-esteem instability and fear of negative evaluation are determining & predictive factors in self-handicapping in adolescent students.