Predicting Academic Motivation based on Academic Vitality, Mental Toughness and Social Well-Being of Adolescents

Abstract

Introduction and Aim: Academic motivation plays an important role in other academic and non-academic variables in adolescents. Therefore, the present was conducted with the aim of predicting academic motivation based on academic vitality, mental toughness, and social well-being of adolescents.

Methodology: This study was a cross-sectional from type correlation. The research population was all second high school students of Ahvaz city in the 2024-5 academic years, which 500 people of them were selected as samples using multi-stage cluster sampling. The research instruments included the Academic Motivation Scale (Vallerand et al., 1992), Academic Vitality Questionnaire (Dehghanizadeh and Hosseinchari, 2013), Mental Toughness Questionnaire (Clough et al., 2002), and Social Well-Being Questionnaire (Keyes, 2004). The data of this study were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficients and multiple regression with enter model in SPSS-29 software at a significance level of 0.05.

Findings: The findings of this research showed that academic vitality, mental toughness, and social well-being had a positive and significant relationship with academic motivation of adolescents (P<0.001). Also, the variables of academic vitality, mental toughness, and social well-being significantly were able to predict 42 percent of the changes of their academic motivation (P<0.001).

Conclusion: Considering the role of the variables of academic vitality, mental toughness, and social well-being in predicting academic motivation of adolescents, in order to improve their academic motivation can be designed and implemented programs for academic vitality, mental toughness, and social well-being.