Predicting Academic Avoidance Based on the Meaning of Education, Academic Self-Efficacy and Academic Stressors

This study has been conducted with the aim of predicting academic avoidance based on the meaning of education, academic self-efficacy and academic stressors. The present research is a descriptive correlational study in which 255 high school and vocational school students in Khusf County were selected through random sampling method in the academic year 2019-2020 and were studied based on four scales of the meaning of education, academic self-efficacy, academic stressors and academic avoidance. The stepwise regression analysis results demonstrated that among the ten meanings of education, profession in the first step and stress in the second step, academic performance in the third step and also among the dimensions of academic stressors, failure and self-imposed stress in the fourth and fifth steps significantly predict 37% of the variance of students’ academic avoidance.