A Causal Explanation of Academic Buoyancy based on the Family Communication Patterns: The Mediating Role of Emotional Expressiveness

This study examined the mediating role of emotional expressiveness in the relationship between academic buoyancy and family communication patterns.Five hundred and four students (261 girls, 243 boys) were selected from high school of Shiraz, Iran using multi-stage random cluster sampling. The participants completed the Revised Family Communication Patterns Questionnaire (Fitzpatrick & Ritchie, 1994), the Emotional Expressiveness Questionnaire (King & Emmons, 1990), and the Academic Buoyancy Questionnaire (Dehqanyzadeh et al, 2014). The results of path analysis indicated that the model had a good fit to the data. The family communication patterns had a significant direct and indirect effect on student's academic buoyancy. The conversation orientation had a significant positive direct effect on academic buoyancy. The conversation orientation increased academic buoyancy indirectly through increasing positive emotional expressiveness and decreasing negative emotional expressiveness. The conformity orientation decreased academic buoyancy indirectly through increasing negative emotional expressiveness. The findings suggested that emotional expressiveness had a mediating role in the relationship between family communication patterns and academic buoyancy.