Relationship between Teaching Style based on Successful Intelligence and Academic Identity: Mediating Role of Basic Psychological Needs

The present study aimed to investigate the structural model of the relationship between teaching for successful intelligence and academic identity through the mediating role of basic psychological needs in students. The research method was correlation and the statistical population included the academic staff members of Farhangian University of Zahedan and all male and female students working at Farhangian University in 2022. Participants were 129 people who were selected by stratified random sampling. In order to collect data, Academic identity status measure (Was & Isaacson, 2008), Basic Psychological Need Satisfaction Scales (BPNSS) and Teaching for Successful Intelligence Questionnaire (Paloú & MaricuĠoiu, 2013) were used. The results indicated that the teaching for successful intelligence had a direct and significant effect on the basic psychological needs and academic identity in students. Also, basic psychological needs had a direct and significant effect on students' academic identity. According to the findings, the teaching for successful intelligence had an indirect and significant effect on students' academic identity through the basic psychological needs in students as well. The findings support the role of teaching methods based on cognitive factors on the personality and psychological outcomes in students.