The Relationship between Positive and Negative Affects and Academic Well-being in Students

Aryan, Hossein; Basak Nezhad, Soudabeh; Hajiyakhchali, Alireza

doi:10.22055/jacp.2024.48436.1428

The Relationship between Positive and Negative Affects and Academic Well-being in Students

https://doi.org/10.22055/jacp.2024.48436.1428

Volume 10, Issue 4
Winter 2024

Pages 67-74

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Hossein Aryan ¹

Soudabeh Basak Nezhad ²

Alireza Hajiyakhchali ³

¹ Bachelor Student of psychology, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran

² Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran

³ Associate Professor, Department of Education and Psychology, Ahvaz Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran.

Abstract

The purpose of this research was to investigate the effect of positive and negative affects on the academic well-being of the first grade male students of Fouladshahr Middle School. In terms of purpose, the research is of applied type, in terms of data collection method, it is descriptive of correlation type. The statistical population included all male students of the Middle school level in the academic year of 1402-1403 in the city of Fouladshahr. In order to select the research sample, the number of 136 first high school male students between the ages of 13 and 16 (average age 14.5) were selected as the research sample in a simple random manner and the questionnaires of positive and negative affects and academic well-being were distributed among the school students.The results showed that the Pearson correlation coefficient of all subjects between positive affects with academic well-being was 0.487 at the 0.05 level and negative affects with academic well-being was -0.280 at the 0.01 level. Based on the results of multiple regressions, the variable of positive affects predicts academic well-being, and negative affects do not play a significant role in predicting academic well-being.

Keywords

positive affects

negative affects

academic well-being

students

Subjects

psychology

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