Designing an academic self-regulation model based on basic psychological needs and family communication model mediated by academic motivation

Self-regulation has an effective role in other academic performance of students and can cause their academic success. Therefore, the aim of this study was designing an academic self-regulation model based on basic psychological needs and family communication pattern with the mediation of academic engagement.

This research in terms of purpose was applied and in terms of implementation method was descriptive from type of survey. The statistical population of the current study was male senior students of Hamedan city in the academic years of 2020-2021 and about 4000 people. The samples of this study were 420 people who were selected by cluster sampling method and answered to the academic self-regulation questionnaire (Savari and Arabzade, 2013), basic psychological needs questionnaire (Gagne, 2003), revised family communication patterns scale (Koerner and Fitzpatrick, 2002) and academic engagement questionnaire (Schaufeli et al., 2002). For data analysis were used from Pearson correlation coefficients and structural equation modeling methods in SPSS-20 and Smart-PLS-3 software.

The findings showed that the academic self-regulation model based on basic psychological needs and family communication pattern with the mediation of academic engagement had a good fit. Other findings showed that basic psychological needs and communication patterns of conversation and conformity had a direct and significant effect on students' academic engagement and basic psychological needs, communication patterns of conversation and conformity and academic engagement had a direct and significant effect on their self-regulation (P<0.05). In addition, basic psychological needs and communication patterns of conversation and conformity with the mediation of academic engagement had an indirect and significant effect on students' academic self-regulation (P<0.05).

According to the results of the present research, to improve students' self-regulation can be met their basic psychological needs and can be improved their communication patterns and academic engagement through educational workshops.