Investigating the Relationship between Virtual Education and Exam Anxiety Mediated by Academic Engagement

The current research is a descriptive correlational research with an emphasis on structural equations. The statistical population consisted of 150 students of the 6th grade of elementary school in Sawad Koh Shamali city. For sampling, 100 people were selected by calculating the sample size through Cochran's equation, and then stratified and multi-stage cluster sampling methods were used to select the sample. To collect data, Appleton et al.'s standard student academic engagement questionnaire (2006), Kim et al.'s virtual education questionnaire (2005) and Dries Cole's standard exam anxiety questionnaire (2007) were used. In this research, descriptive statistics (minimum, maximum, mean, standard deviation, skewness and kurtosis) and inferential statistics (simple linear relationships from Pearson's correlation coefficient and to test the conceptual model of the research from the structural equation model) to analyze the data with The use of spss26 software is used. The findings showed that there is a direct negative and significant relationship between virtual education and exam anxiety. Also, there was a negative and significant relationship between these two variables indirectly with the mediation of academic conflict.