The relationship between autonomy supportive environmental and academic well-being: the mediating role of basic psychological needs

Numerous studies have studied the importance of basic psychological needs in students and have investigated the role of basic psychological needs in creating hope, efficiency, resilience and optimism, academic performance, burnout and academic inefficiency. But there is a research gap on the relationship between self-supportive environment and academic well-being with the mediating role of basic psychological needs.

The relationship between self-adherence supportive environment and academic well-being with the mediating role of basic psychological needs.

The research was correlated with structural equation modeling. The statistical population consisted of all male high school students in Qaenat city in the academic year of 2018-2019. Research tools include the. Research tools include the Self Assessment of Self Assessment Questionnaire of Assor et al (2002), the Tominin-Sweeney et al (2012) academic well-being scale, and the Lagardia et al(2000). Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation, regression, factor analysis, and structural equations.

Self-supporting environment has a direct and significant effect on basic psychological needs and academic well-being and basic psychological needs also has a direct and significant effect on academic well-being (P <0.01). Also, self-supportive environment through mediating variable of basic psychological needs has an indirect effect on students' academic well-being (P<0/01).

Increasing the quality of self-supportive environments enhances the psychological needs of students and their academic well-being.