Mediating role of academic emotions on the relationship between basic psychological needs and academic satisfaction among students

Abstract

Introduction: Academic satisfaction is one of the factors that can affect the whole life and fate of students. The purpose of this study was to investigate mediating effect of Academic Emotion on the relationship between basic psychological needs and academic satisfaction of students. Methods: This is a descriptive-analytic study of correlation type on all students of Yazd Shahid Sadoughi University of Medical Sciences (n=5363) during the academic year of 2018-19. The sample size was 358 (58.96% female and 41.03% male) according to Morgan table and they were selected by cluster random sampling. Research instruments were Deci and Ryan's Basic Psychological Needs, Pekrun and et al Academic Emotion scale, Lent and et al Academic Satisfaction. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation coefficient and path analysis through AMOS and SPSS. Results: There was a positive significant relationship among basic psychological needs, positive academic emotions and academic satisfaction (P<0.01). There was a Negative significant relationship between negative academic emotions and academic satisfaction (P<0.01). The results showed that the proposed model has good fit (GFI=0.99 & RAMSEA=0.043). Path analysis results indicated that autonomy, competence and positive & negative academic emotions was significantly related to Academic satisfaction. Furthermore, the results showed that academic Emotion mediated the relationship between basic psychological needs and Academic satisfaction. Conclusion: These results show the importance of basic psychological needs, therefore to improve Academic satisfaction students must feel autonomous, competent, and experience a genuine connection with their college, lecturers and fellow students.

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