Prediction of academic vitality based on life expectancy, happiness and meaning in students

Porpose:

 The aim of this study was to predict academic vitality based on life expectancy, happiness and meaning in female high school students.

The research method was descriptive and correlational. The statistical population included all female high school students in Hamedan. The statistical sample of 370 people was selected by multi-stage cluster sampling. To collect data from the scales of academic vitality (Hossein Chari and Dehghani Zadeh, 2012), life expectancy (Hallajian, 2010), meaning of life (Estger et al., 2006) and Oxford happiness (Argyle et al., 1989) used. Pearson correlation and multiple regression in Spss-22 software were used to analyze the data.

The results showed the effect of life expectancy (β = 0.03, p <0.01), happiness (β = 0.07, p <0.01) and meaning (β = 0.01, p <0.01) on academic vitality. It was positive and meaningful. According to the research findings, life expectancy, meaning and happiness have a positive effect on vitality. Given that these variables are positive constructs of psychology and can create freshness and vitality in the educational environment, so they have the ability to affect academic vitality.

Happiness and vitality are related and close variables, people who are happy and satisfied, work with energy and motivation in various fields of work and study and are less likely to be lazy and lazy, students who have high happiness have, this happiness is largely affected by their academic satisfaction, academic satisfaction also causes more effort and interest in doing academic assignments.