Allameh Tabataba’i University Educational Psychology 2538-3183 17 59 2021 03 21 The relationship between Social Goal Setting and School Adjustment: The Mediating Roles of Rumination, Empathy and Forgiveness The relationship between Social Goal Setting and School Adjustment: The Mediating Roles of Rumination, Empathy and Forgiveness 57 92 13337 10.22054/jep.2021.58222.3251 FA Akbar Nasiri Student of Shahid Beheshti University Omid Shokri Faculty member of Shahid Beheshti University Jalil Fathabadi Faculty member of Shahid Beheshti University Masoud Sharifi Faculty of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran Journal Article 2021 01 09 The purpose of this study is to examine the role of mediators including rumination, empathy and forgiveness in the relationship between social goals and school adjustment. The research sample consisted of 404 first-year high school boys who were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling and answered to social achievement goals (Ryan & Shim, 2008), Rumination about an Interpersonal Offense (Wade, Vogel & Goldman,2008),Empathy(Bar-Ann,1997), Trait Forgivingness (Berry, Worthington, O'Connor, Parrott &Wade,2005) and Adjustment Inventory For High School (Sinha and Singh, 1993). In this study, descriptive method and correlational research design of path analysis type were used. The results showed that the assumed pattern of Intermediate rumination, empathy and forgiveness related to social achievement goals, including social development, social demonstration approach, and social demonstration avoid to emotional, social, educational adjustment has good fitness. In addition, all correlational pathways (except for Social development and emotional adjustment, social demonstration approach and academic adjustment, social demonstration avoid and socio-academic adjustment) were statistically significant. The results of the present study show that the goals of social progress through predicting the increase of empathy and forgiveness and reduction of rumination have an important role in the occurrence of emotional, social and educational adjustment of students. The purpose of this study is to examine the role of mediators including rumination, empathy and forgiveness in the relationship between social goals and school adjustment. The research sample consisted of 404 first-year high school boys who were selected by multi-stage cluster sampling and answered to social achievement goals (Ryan & Shim, 2008), Rumination about an Interpersonal Offense (Wade, Vogel & Goldman,2008),Empathy(Bar-Ann,1997), Trait Forgivingness (Berry, Worthington, O'Connor, Parrott &Wade,2005) and Adjustment Inventory For High School (Sinha and Singh, 1993). In this study, descriptive method and correlational research design of path analysis type were used. The results showed that the assumed pattern of Intermediate rumination, empathy and forgiveness related to social achievement goals, including social development, social demonstration approach, and social demonstration avoid to emotional, social, educational adjustment has good fitness. In addition, all correlational pathways (except for Social development and emotional adjustment, social demonstration approach and academic adjustment, social demonstration avoid and socio-academic adjustment) were statistically significant. The results of the present study show that the goals of social progress through predicting the increase of empathy and forgiveness and reduction of rumination have an important role in the occurrence of emotional, social and educational adjustment of students. https://jep.atu.ac.ir/article_13337_7e4a7592fb27679a348c87bd8191a45b.pdf