Structural Equation Modeling of Students’ Motivational Styles, Their Self-Efficacy and Academic Self-Regulatory

This study investigated the relationship between the high school students’ motivational styles, their self-efficacy and their academic self-regulatory in the city of Karaj. The population of the study includes all high school male and female students. Four hundred students were selected by multistage cluster sampling method. Three questionnaires such as academic motivation scale, Nezami self-efficacy questionnaire and Buford’s questionnaires of self-regulatory learning were used. After confirming the measurement model of the latent variables and the model structure function. Results showed that the model test data were fitted. Efficacy was defined as a mediator and moderator in the relationship between motivational and academic self-regulatory. It was determined that motivation has a direct inverse relationship with other variables. Internal and external components of motivation, self - regulator and self - efficacy have a significant direct relationship.