Zahra Emami Khotbesara; Hossein Mahdian; Abolfazl Bakhshipoor
Abstract
Purpose: The present study was conducted with the aim of comparing the effectiveness of academic vitality training and psychological capital on the academic engagement of female students.Methodology: This research was a semi-experimental type with a pre-test and post-test design with a control group. ...
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Purpose: The present study was conducted with the aim of comparing the effectiveness of academic vitality training and psychological capital on the academic engagement of female students.Methodology: This research was a semi-experimental type with a pre-test and post-test design with a control group. The statistical population of this research included all secondary school girls of the 7th district of Mashhad in the academic year of 2020. 45 people who had a lower score in the dependent variable and were willing to participate in training sessions were selected as a sample and were randomly divided into two experimental groups and one control group (15 people in each group). One week after the pre-test for all three groups, one experimental group was exposed to the independent variable of academic vitality training and the second experimental group was exposed to psychological capital training, and the control group did not receive any training and then from all The groups were taken after the test. Rio (2013) standard academic engagement questionnaire was used to collect data. In this research, in order to investigate the differences between groups, multivariate and univariate repeated measure variance analysis was used, taking into account the intragroup (test) and intergroup (group membership) factors.Findings: The results showed that teaching academic vitality and psychological capital increases academic engagement in female students. The results showed that there is no significant difference between the effectiveness of academic vitality training and psychological capital on academic engagement.Conclusion: According to the findings, it can be concluded that academic vitality training and psychological capital are effective in increasing academic engagement and there is no difference between their effectiveness.
