Relationship between academic optimism and academic self-efficacy with academic engagement

Abstract

The Purpose of this study was to determine the relationship between academic optimism and academic Self-Efficacy with academic engagement in piranha Islamic Azad University students in the academic year of 1395-96. The research method was correlation. The statistical population of the study consisted of students of piranshar Islamic Azad University. 299 (157 boys and 142 girls) were randomly selected using a multi-stage cluster sampling method. To calculate the sample size' the Cochran formula used.  Data were collected through a questionnaire of academic engagement, academic optimism questionnaire and academic self- efficacy questionnaire. The variables of academic optimism and academic self-efficacy (predictive variables) were used to predict academic engagement (criterion variable). Multiple stepwise regression tests were used. The results showed that in the first step, the statistical test F for significance of this prediction is 395/136 which is significant at level (p<0/05). In other words, academic self-efficacy has been a predictor of academic engagement. In the second step, the statistical test F has significant significance for this prediction is 244/133, which is significant at level (p<0/05). In other words, academic self-efficacy variables and their optimism together predict the variables of academic engagement. Findings showed that academic optimism, academic self-efficacy and academic engagement have a meaningful relationship.The results of the research findings include the fact that the relationship between variables is positive and significant in the main and secondary hypotheses, and predictor variables can distinguish the criterion variable.