Document Type : Research Paper
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Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences and Psychology, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran.
Abstract
The present study aimed to investigate the relationship between psychological well-being and academic self-efficacy of educational psychology students with the mediating role of self-esteem. This research is of an applied, quantitative and correlational type. The statistical population of the study was educational psychology students at the University of Tabriz and the sample size was determined using GPower software, 119 people who were selected by stratified random sampling. The data collection tools were the Riff Psychological Well-Being Questionnaire (1989), the Jinks and Morgan Academic Self-Efficacy Questionnaire (1999) and the Rosenberg Self-Esteem Questionnaire (1965). In order to analyze the data, in addition to descriptive analysis, Kolmogorov-Smirnov tests, structural equation modeling and Sobel were used in SPSS version 23 and SmartPLS version 3.1.1 software at a significance level of 0.05. The results of the study showed that the research model has a good fit and that psychological well-being is significantly related to self-esteem (t=23.086; p=0.001) and academic self-efficacy (t=6.306; p=0.001) and self-esteem is also significantly related to academic self-efficacy (t=4.118; p=0.001). The results of the study also showed that self-esteem plays a mediating role in the relationship between psychological well-being and academic self-efficacy (z=6.718; p=0.001). Therefore, optimal psychological functioning and high self-esteem make students feel capable in facing challenges and succeed in dealing with academic problems.
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