Studying psychometric indices of the classroom goal structure questionnaire and its relationship with student's academic emotion

The purpose of the present study was to investigate the factor validity and reliability of the class structure goal questionnaire and its relationship with students' academic emotion. This questionnaire was developed by Midgley et al. (2000). For this purpose, 400 male and female students were selected randomly from Kohgiluyeh and Boyerahmad Province high schools. To test the reliability of the questionnaire, Cronbach's alpha coefficient was used and exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis was used to determine its validity. In line with the results of the research Midgley et al. (2000) present study showed that the questionnaire had acceptable internal consistency and Cronbach's alpha coefficients in its sub-scales ranged from 0.79 to 0.91. Also, the results of exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis confirm that the structure of the questionnaire has an acceptable fit with the data and all the goodness indicators of fit are validated by the model. The results also showed that there is a positive and significant relationship between the goal structure of mastery and the goal-oriented performanceapproach with positive emotions (enjoyment from class and hope in the classroom). The structure of mastery has a negative relationship with negative emotions (class boredom and anxiety in the class), while the relationship between the performance-approach goal structure and negative emotions has not been meaningful. In addition, the performance-avoidance goal structure has a negative relationship with negative emotions and has a negative relationship with positive emotions. Therefore, this questionnaire can be a useful tool for evaluating student perceptions of the class goal structure, and the goaloriented structure of the class influences the emotions of students.