Abstract
Abstract
Background: The current study amid to investigate the relationship between school culture and academic well-being (AWB) through the mediating role of the satisfaction of the basic psychological needs (SBPN) in students.
Methods: It was a correlational study, of structural equations modeling type. The statistical population of the study included all high school students in Kermanshah, Iran in the academic year 2020-2021, among whom 522 students were selected using cluster sampling to be a research sample. The research measures included Tominin-Sweeney et al.’ s AWB, Alessandro and Sade’s school culture, and Guardia et al.’s basic psychological needs questionnaires. The structural equations modeling was used in LISREL 8.8 software to analyze the data.
Results: The results of data analysis confirmed the appropriate fit of the overall model in sample of the study. There was a significant relationship between students’ relations and their AWB through SBPN, and also between educational opportunities and AWB through SBPN.
Conclusions: According to the results, it is worthwhile for teachers to pay more attention to promoting school culture to satisfy the basic psychological needs of students, one of the consequences of which will be the improvement of AWB.
Publisher
Research Square Platform LLC
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