saman kamari; Mahboobeh Fouladchang; Farhad khormaee
Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between social cognition and academic well-being through the mediating roles of social achievement goals and academic and social positive emotions. The statistical population consisted of all Shiraz University undergraduate students, ...
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The purpose of the present study was to investigate the relationship between social cognition and academic well-being through the mediating roles of social achievement goals and academic and social positive emotions. The statistical population consisted of all Shiraz University undergraduate students, from which 566 (278 boy and 288 girl) students were selected through the random multi-stage cluster sampling method. The research instruments included the Social Cognition Questionnaire (Nejati, & et al., 2019), Social Achievement Goals Scale (Ryan, & Shim, 2009), Academic Hope Scale (Khormaee, & Kamari, 2017), Admiration Scale (Schindler, & et al., 2013), Academic Engagement Inventory (AEI) (Salmela-Aro, & Upadyaya, 2012), and Academic Burnout Inventory (ABI) (Salmela-Aro, & et al., 2009). Data were analyzed by structural equation modeling. The findings showed that social cognition had an indirect and positive effect on academic hope and admiration through the mediating role of the social development goal. Social development goal had an indirect and positive effect on academic engagement and an indirect and negative effect on academic burnout through the mediating role of positive emotions of academic hope and admiration. Furthermore, the social demonstration- approach goal had an indirect and negative effect on academic engagement through the mediating role of admiration social emotion. According to these results, social cognition, with the increase of social development goal, increased the positive emotions of academic hope and admiration, and in this way, affected academic well-being (academic engagement and academic burnout). It can be concluded that in the domain of academic well-being, some variables like social cognition, social achievement goals, and academic and social positive emotions can play important roles.
