The Role of Education Civic Behavior in Student Academic Optimism: Testing the Role of Moral Intelligence

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

1 Professor of Educational Sciences Department, Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University, Tehran , Iran.

2 Department of Educational Sciences, Faculty of Humanities, Bu-Ali Sina University

Abstract
The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of academic civic behavior on academic optimism with the mediation of moral intelligence among all of the undergraduate students of Bu Ali Sina University.The statistical population included all undergraduate students of 8000 people who were selected by Georgian and Morgan table and 367 people were selected by simple random sampling method.The research method was descriptive of correlational studies and structural equation modeling.A questionnaire was used to collect data which included the Civic Academic Behavior Questionnaire by Golparvar (2010), the Moral Intelligence by Lennick & Kiel (2008) and the Academic Optimism Schannen-moran & et al(2013).Confirmed validity and reliability were also calculated with Cronbach’s alpha Which was obtained 0.77, 0.89 and 0.93, respectively.In addition to descriptive statistics, statistical techniques such as Pearson correlation coefficient, confirmation path analysis and structural equation modeling using SPSS v. Statistical software were used to analyze the data. 25 and LISREL8.8.The results showed,the variable of civic behavior-education has a positive direct effect(0/55),Positive indirect effect (0/126) and the totally positive effect (0/67) and it has a significant effect on the educational optimism variable at the level of 0/05.Moral intelligence has a direct positive effect (0/23) and the totally positive effect (0/23) and meaningful relationship on the academic Optimism variable at the level of 0/05.Also, the variables of educational civic behavior and moral intelligence are able to explain 44% of the variance of academic optimism.The overall result was that,the research model was valid and all research hypotheses have been confirmed.

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