The Relationship Between Academic Hope and Academic Avoidance: The Mediating Role of Academic Self-Regulation

The present study aimed to investigate the mediating role of academic self-regulation in the relationship between academic hope and academic avoidance. A sample of 265 senior high school students (170 girls, 95 boys) were selected by the random cluster sampling method. The participants completed the Self- Regulation Questionnaire (Bouffard, Boisvert, Vezeau & Larouche, 1995), the Academic Hope Scale (Khormaei & Kamari, 2017) and the Academic Avoidance Questionnaire (Khormaei & Saleh Ardestani, 2017). The results of structural equation modeling indicated that academic hope had a negative direct effect on academic avoidance. The academic hope had a negative indirect effect on academic avoidance through academic self-regulation. The findings suggested the importance of academic hope and academic self-regulation in reducing academic avoidance