Volume 2, Issue 3 (9-2019)                   Iranian Journal of Educational Sociology 2019, 2(3): 56-66 | Back to browse issues page


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1- Department of educational psychology, Bojnourd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bojnourd,Iran.
2- Assistant professor of educational psychology, Bojnourd Branch, Islamic Azad University, Bojnourd,Iran.
3- Assistant professor of educational psychology Azad University Ghochan Branch. Ghochan. Iran.onal psychology, Islam
Abstract:   (2064 Views)
Purpose: The purpose of this study was to investigate the causal relationship between parenting styles and academic self-handicapping by mediating role of meta-cognitive and perfectionism skills.
Methodology: The statistical population of the study consisted of all the second grade secondary school students in studying the academic year of 2017-18, in Bojnourd. A sample of 350 students was selected using multi-stage cluster sampling. To collect the data,(a) Alabama Parenting Questionnaire (APQ),(b) Metacognitive Skills Questionnaire(MCSQ)(Dowson,Mcinerney, 2004), (c) Perfectionism Scale (Hewitt, Flett (1991) and (d) Academic self-handicapping Scale (ASHS) (Schwinger, 2014) were used. Pearson correlation coefficient and Structure Equation Modeling were used to analyze the data.
Findings: Findings showed that parenting styles directly to academic self-handicapping was not significant, But through the mediating role of meta-cognitive skills and perfectionism was significant. and the hypothetical model had good fit.
Conclusion: teaching of the metacognitive skills to students will reduce the academic self-handicapping, and the increaseing of perfectionism will increase the likelihood of academic self-handicapping in the students.
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Type of Study: Research Article | Subject: Special
Received: 2019/03/11 | Accepted: 2018/07/25 | Published: 2019/08/28

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