Development and Validation of the Promoting and Preventing Educational Health Academic Lifestyle Behaviors Questionnaire: Perspectives on contemporary theories of achievement motivation

The present study aimed to construct a psychometric version of the Persian version of a health-oriented lifestyle behaviors questionnaire among a group of Iranian students. The present study was composed of two stages, in general. In the first stage, the researcher tried to identify the most commonly used behavioral models of students based on contemporary theories of motivation for academic achievement. With the aim of forming a bank of questions, the researcher, with the help of two specialists in educational psychology and Psychometric, developed the bank's initial version of questions that included various forms of behavioral models. Then, the researcher, using a deductive approach and with the help of detailed analysis techniques, selected the most appropriate items for each behavioral model. In the second stage, the researcher, by adopting a deductive approach while analyzing the structure of the developed tool, provided evidence in defense of the technical characteristics of the validity and reliability of the tool. The results of confirmatory factor analysis based on AMOS software showed that multidimensional structure of academic health facilitating behaviors including academic optimism, academic engagement, …, as well as multidimensional structure of disincentive behaviors such as learned helplessness, avoidance of seeking help, academic procrastination, …, and perfectionism with data were shown to fit well. In addition, the results of the common variance of the multiple forms of facilitating and preventing of educational health with emotions of academic achievement, academic self-efficacy and perceived academic stress showed that the health-oriented lifestyle questionnaire has constructive validity. The results of this research provided evidence in defense of theoretical logic of the health-oriented educational lifestyle questionnaire, and on the other hand, showed that this tool was used to measure the concept of behaviors of the health-oriented educational lifestyle among Iranian students are considered to be a valid and reliable instrument.