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Sajedifard, Mohammad; Sajedifard, Zahra – School Psychology International, 2022
This qualitative study aimed to investigate the influences on 32 rural Iranian high school students' adoption of achievement goals. To this end, the high school students took part in individual semi-structured interviews. The outcomes indicated the high school students' goal orientation adoption was impacted by a host of significant individuals in…
Descriptors: Rural Schools, Academic Achievement, Goal Orientation, Predictor Variables
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Sadeghi, Ahmad; Mahdavi, Fatemeh – Journal of Career Development, 2020
The purpose of this study was to examine the application of Lent and Brown's social-cognitive model in predicting academic well-being of Iranian students. A total of 400 undergraduate students (252 female students and 148 male students) completed the measures of academic satisfaction, self-efficacy, environmental support, goal progress, and…
Descriptors: Predictor Variables, Foreign Countries, College Students, Well Being
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Abdi Zarrin, Sohrab; Gracia, Esther – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2020
Academic procrastination is a problem behavior with negative consequences for students. The extent of this phenomenon among students and the negative impact on their academic achievement requires more attention and research on this issue. The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating on the role of fear of failure and subscale of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, College Students, Student Behavior, Time Management
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Zafarmand, Atefeh; Ghanizadeh, Afsaneh; Akbari, Omid – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
This article sets out to examine the relationship between EFL learners' goal orientation, metacognitive awareness and self-efficacy in a single framework. One hundred fifteen EFL students from two universities of Mashhad, a city in north-eastern Iran took part in this study. Structural equation modeling (SEM) was utilized to examine the…
Descriptors: Structural Equation Models, Goal Orientation, Metacognition, English (Second Language)