Prediction of academic motivation based on corona anxiety and mental health in teenagers

Alireza Zare Davijani¹ Solmaz Debiri² Safiullah Hazarian³ Shadi Hoshiaripur⁴ Mahdieh Targhee⁵

1) Faculty member, Payam Noor University, Tehran, Iran
2) Corresponding author: PhD student in Psychology, Department of Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Roudhan Branch, Tehran, Iran
3) PhD in General Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz Branch, Iran
4) Master s degree in personality psychology, University of Research Sciences, Tehran, Iran
5) Bachelor of Guidance and Counseling, Payam Noor University, Hassan Abad Center, Tehran, Iran

IOI Code : XEFZ-HBFFZ
Publication : The Second National Conference on Psychotherapy in Iran(incpuma2.ir)
Abstract :
    Academic motivation is one of the important factors in academic progress, and students without motivation face many problems in the academic process. The present study was conducted with the aim of predicting academic motivation based on anxiety and mental health in adolescents. The present study is descriptive correlational in terms of practical purpose and in terms of data collection method. The statistical population of the present study included all teenagers in Tehran in 1401. Based on this, 137 people were selected as the research sample and they were asked to answer the questionnaires of academic motivation, anxiety of Corona and mental health. In the present study, Pearson s correlation coefficient and regression analysis methods were used for data analysis using SPSS version 22 software. The correlation coefficient between academic motivation with corona anxiety and mental health is significant at 0.01. The regression results in predicting academic motivation through the dimensions of corona anxiety and mental health show that among the predictor variables, corona anxiety and mental health both had a significant role in predicting academic motivation (p<0.05). Corona anxiety and mental health could explain 24% of the variance of academic motivation at the level of 0.001. Based on this, academic motivation in teenagers through corona anxiety, mental health

Keywords : academic motivation corona anxiety mental health