Model of students' academic engagement: The role of motivational class climate with mediation satisfying of basic psychological needs

Improving the academic engagement have and effective role in other academic variables including academic success and performance. As a result, this research aimed to determine the model of students' academic engagement: The role of motivational class climate with mediation satisfying of basic psychological needs. Present study was cross-sectional from type of correlation. The research population was all students of Islamic Azad University of Urmia branch in academic years of 2019-20 (13000 people). To determine the sample size used from Cochran's formula and number of 400 people selected as a sample that they were selected by available sampling method. The research instruments was the motivational class climate scale, basic psychological needs scale and academic engagement questionnaire that the Cronbach's alpha coefficient of all was higher than 0.80 and their face and content validity were confirmed by experts. Data were analyzed by structural equation method of path analysis with using two SPSS-19 and LISREL-8.8 software. The results showed that the model had a fit well and mastery and performance motivational climate had a significant and direct effect on need to autonomy, competence, relatedness and academic engagement. The need to autonomy, competence, relatedness had a significant and direct effect on academic engagement. The mediating role of satisfying of basic psychological needs between motivational class climate and academic engagement of students was confirmed; so that mastery and performance motivational climate with mediation need of autonomy, competence and relatedness had a significant and indirect effect on academic engagement (P<0.05). Regarded to results of present research to increase students' academic engagement can improve the motivational class climate and satisfying of basic psychological needs that for this purpose promoting the mastery motivational climate should be a priority.