Psychometric Analysis of the Farsi Version of the Academic Pride

Pride as a self-conscious achievement emotion, is a commonly experienced emotion in the achievement context and is important for achievement motivation and performance. Therefore, this paper had the aim of adapt and validate the Academic Pride Scale in a student’s population.

In this correlational study, 250 students (140 female and 110 male) who were selected using the convenience sampling method, were answered the Achievement Goal Questionnaire-Revised (Elliot & Murayama, 2008), the Stress Appraisal Measure-Revised (Rowley, Roesch, Jurica & Vaughn, 2005) and the Academic Pride Scale (Buechner, Pekrun & Lichtenfeld, 2018).

The results of confirmatory factor analysis showed that the two factor model of Academic Pride Scale including self-based pride and social comparison-based pride had fit well to the data. External validity is demonstrated in terms of relations with students’ achievement goals and cognitive appraisals.

In Sum, these results consistent to Pekrun’s control-value theory of achievement emotions, emphasizing the need to analyze and understand the functional characteristics of the academic pride construct, in the realm of positive and negative achievement emotions, provided double and defensible evidence in defense of the study of achievement emotions in two forms of single emotions focused on a single experience and of course, in the field of multiple positive and negative emotions.