The mediating role of positive youth development in the relationship between ethical climate school with destructive academic behaviors

Positive youth development is a comprehensive and integrated approach that emphasizes youths’ strengths and adaptive processes. smooths the way for adolescents to reach a sense of competence in physical, emotional, cognitive, and moral dimensions and its aim is to create positive behaviors in adolescents.In line with this,this study aimed to investigate the relation of ethical climate school to destructive academic behaviors by mediating positive youth development. The research was a correlation design. Participants were 671 high school students (293 boys and 378 girls) from Shiraz selected using a multistage random cluster sampling method. They completed the ethical climate school scale (Schulte and et al, 2002), positive youth development scale (Geldhof and et al, 2014), and destructive academic behaviors scale (Kashkoli, 2017). Data were analyzed using Structural Equation Modeling in AMOS. The results showed that the model of this research has a suitable fitness. According to the finding, ethical climate school and positive youth development had a direct and negative effect on destructive academic behaviors. Also, ethical climate schools had a direct and positive effect on positive youth development. The results of the Bootstrap test showed that positive youth development has a mediating role in the relation of ethical climate school to destructive academic behaviors. Based on the results, to reduce harmful academic behaviors, one should pay attention to moral climate of school and promoting the components of positive youth development.