Ezatolah Ghadampour; Leila Mansouri
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The present study aimed to compare the religious attitudes, self-efficacy and academic adjustment among undergraduated students based on sex, as well as the power of each variable in predicting academic achievement. The study population included all students of faculty of literature and humanity in Islamic ...
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The present study aimed to compare the religious attitudes, self-efficacy and academic adjustment among undergraduated students based on sex, as well as the power of each variable in predicting academic achievement. The study population included all students of faculty of literature and humanity in Islamic Azad university, Izeh branch; during the academic year of 2015-16. This was correlational and comparative study. The research sample consisted of 274 students (130 male and 144 female), who were selected by stratified random sampling method. Religious Attitude Questionnaire (Golriz & Braheni, 1975), Self-efficacy Scale (Sherer & etal, 1982), Academic adjustment Questionnaire (baker & siryk, 1986) have been used for data collection. also student's average scores were used to measure academic achievement. The data was analyzed by ANOVA, Pearson correlation coefficient and stepwise multiple regression analysis. The result showed that there was significant difference between two groups of students in terms of academic self-efficacy and academic adjustment but there was no significant difference in their religious attitudes. The result of pearson correlation analysis indicated that there was no significant relationship between religious attitudes and academic achievement but there was significant relationship between self-efficacy, academic adjustment and academic achievement. stepwise regression analysis results also suggested that self efficacy and academic adjustment in female students and academic adjustment in male students are the most powerful predictors of academic achievement.
abas abolghasemi; parvin baigi
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Background: Test anxiety involves the unpleasant experience of worry and emotionality in situations where the person feels he or she is being evaluated. Objective: The aim of the present research was to compare the efficacy of trainings of cognitive-behavior and emotion regulation skills on self- efficacy ...
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Background: Test anxiety involves the unpleasant experience of worry and emotionality in situations where the person feels he or she is being evaluated. Objective: The aim of the present research was to compare the efficacy of trainings of cognitive-behavior and emotion regulation skills on self- efficacy and academic adjustment of students with test anxiety. Method: This study was an experimental research with pre-test and post- test and control group. The sample of consisted of 60 girls with test anxiety randomly selected from the subjects who were diagnosed as with test anxiety. Subjects were assigned randomly to two experimental groups and one control group. Two techniques were used for training: cognitive- behavior training and emotion regulation skills training. The instruments employed in this research were Clinical interview, Test Anxiety Inventory, Self-efficacy Scale and California test personality. Results: The results showed that two methods training cognitive-behavior and emotion regulation training were significantly effective in reducing test anxiety and increasing self-efficacy and academic adjustment. Conclusion: The important implication is about training of cognitive- behavior strategies and skills coping with emotions in prevention of test anxiety and improvement psychology health of student.
Elham. Ardalan (MA); Masoud. Hosseinchari (PhD)
Volume 6, Issue 17 , July 2010, , Pages 1-32
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he main aim of this study was to investigate the mediation role of self-efficacy in predicting academic adjustment based on communication skills. The sample comprised 385 high school first graders students who were selected via cluster sampling procedure from two Education districts of Shiraz city. The ...
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he main aim of this study was to investigate the mediation role of self-efficacy in predicting academic adjustment based on communication skills. The sample comprised 385 high school first graders students who were selected via cluster sampling procedure from two Education districts of Shiraz city. The research instruments were General self-efficacy, Communication skills, and Academic adjustment questionnaires. Data were analyzed using regression analysis.
The overall findings indicated that communication skills were positive predictors of self-efficacy which in turn is a positive predictor of academic adjustment. In addition, communication skills via self-efficacy as a moderator variable, positively predicted academic adjustment. Also it was revealed that girls scored higher in communication skills test than boys did and there was no significant difference between boys and girls in self-efficacy and academic adjustment. The practical implications of these findings are discussed and the paper is ended with some suggestions for further research in this area.
