School Culture and Academic Performance: the Meditational Role of Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction
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The aim of current research was to investigate the relationship between school culture and academic performance taking into account the meditational role of psychological needs satisfaction in the form of casual model. To this end, 420 fourth grade high school male students were selected in Urmia city using the stratified sampling method and they responded to school culture and basic psychological needs questionnaires. Structural equation modeling was used for data analysis. The findings reveal that basic psychological needs satisfaction has mediational role in relationship between school culture and academic performance. Also, basic psychological needs satisfaction have positive and significant effect on academic performance. Among dimensions of school culture (students' relations, students-teachers relations, normative expectations and educational opportunities), the effects of students and students-teachers relations on basic psychological needs satisfaction are positive and significant. But the normative expectations and educational opportunities dimensions does not have significant effect on this variable. In general, tested model has sufficient fit and predicts 37% of variance in academic performance.
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