The Role of Social Adjustment and Achievement Goals in Predicting Academic Engagement of Students with Learning Disabilities

The purpose of this research is to investigate social adaptation and progress goals in predicting the academic involvement of students with learning disabilities. The statistical population of this study included all students with learning disabilities in Tehran in the academic year of 2011-2012, and 150 of them were selected by convenience sampling. The measurement tools in this research were Sinha and Singh's (1993) social adjustment questionnaires, Elliott and McGregor's (2001) achievement goals, and Rio's (2013) academic engagement questionnaires, which had acceptable validity and reliability. In order to analyze the data, inferential statistics of Pearson's correlation coefficient and multivariate regression were used using SPSS-23 software. The results showed that between social adjustment and academic involvement; And there is a relationship between achievement goals and academic engagement of students with learning disabilities. Also, the results of statistical analysis indicated that social adaptation and achievement goals are predictors of academic involvement of students with learning disabilities.