Identifying factors affecting teachers' happy mood and its impact on students' learning and academic motivation of high school students

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1 Guest lecturer, department of educational sciences, Farhangian University

2 MA. in educational psychology, Payame Noor University, Semnan

Abstract

The present research was conducted with the aim of identifying the effective factors on teachers' happy mood and its effect on learning and academic motivation of secondary school students. The statistical population of the current study includes all teachers of the first secondary school and both male and female students of the eighth and ninth grades of the first secondary school who were studying in Amirabad region in the academic year of 2009-400. 44 teachers and 204 students were selected based on stratified random sampling method. To collect data, Oxford Argyle's Happiness Scale (1989) and Harter's Educational Motivation Scale (1981) were used. The results of exploratory factor analysis led to the identification of organizational, psychological, educational, and physical factors on teachers' happy mood. Also, the results of Pearson's correlation test showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between the factors of teachers' happy mood and students' learning and academic motivation. It seems that therapists, researchers and educational consultants can use the educational program of the present study to reduce the academic problems of learners.

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