Students' academic involvement: Examining the role of sense of belonging to school, parenting styles and basic psychological needs

Authors
Salahedin Ebrahimi 1
Siamand Mavloudi 2
1 Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Management, Farhangian University, Tehran, Iran
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Educational Sciences, Payam Noor University, Tehran: Iran
Abstract
The aim of the present study was to investigate the role of belonging to school, parenting styles and basic psychological needs in predicting students' academic engagement. The current research is applied in terms of purpose and descriptive-correlation based on the data collection method. The statistical population of this research included all the male students of the first secondary level of Piranshahr city in the academic year of 1402-1403, and 327 people were selected as a sample using Cochran's formula with cluster random sampling method. The tools for collecting information in this research are the standard questionnaires of Fredericks et al.'s academic engagement (2004), the sense of belonging to school, Barry, Betty and Watt (2004), parenting methods of Baumrind (1991) and the basic psychological needs of Desi and Ryan ( 2000) were To test the relationship between research variables, Pearson's correlation coefficient and multiple regression analysis were used. The results of the Pearson correlation coefficient test showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between the feeling of belonging to the school and the students' academic involvement (r=0.574); There is an inverse and significant relationship between permissive parenting style and authoritarian style with academic involvement in students (r=-0.477) and (r=-0.485). There is a positive and significant relationship between assertive parenting style and academic involvement in students (r=0.607). There is a positive and significant relationship between basic psychological needs and academic involvement in students (r=0.393). The results of the regression analysis showed that the feeling of belonging to school, permissive style, autocratic style, decisive style and basic psychological needs with beta coefficient of 0.332, -0.170, -0.277, 0.508 and 0.175 respectively. They played a role in predicting students' academic conflict.
Keywords
Academic conflict
sense of belonging to school
parenting methods
basic psychological needs
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