The Relationship Between Motivational Beliefs with Successful Intelligence: The Mediating Role of Academic Engagement

The aim of this research was to investigate the relationship between motivational beliefs and successful intelligence through the mediation of academic engagement. The research method Was descriptive-correlation based on Structural equation modeling. The study community included all high school girls' students of Shiraz City in 2022-2023, and among them, 545 students were selected as samples by the multi-stage cluster method. The research questionnaires included: the motivational strategies for learning questionnaire (MSLQ, pintrich, and Degroot, 1990), the successful intelligence questionnaire (SIQ, Sternberg, and Grigorenko, 2002), and the academic engagement scale (aes, reeve, & tseng, 2011). The findings showed that the model fit in well. Motivational beliefs and successful intelligence have a direct relationship. A positive relationship exists between motivational ideas and academic engagement and between academic engagement and successful intelligence (P<0.001). Also, intellectual engagement has mediated the relationship between motivational beliefs and successful intelligence (P<0.001). The research results show that motivational ideas and academic engagement play a key role in successful intelligence and it is necessary to pay attention to these factors in education programs.