The Relationship between Contingencies of SelfWorth and Happiness with Academic Achievement of High School Male Students

Abstract

Academic achievement has been one of the major issues in psychology and affiliated sciences over a century. There are many factors involved with that, one of them is a sense of happiness among students. And, the other one is self- esteem of students. So, the purpose of this study was to examine the relationship between contingencies of self-worth and happiness with academic achievement in male students of second high school. The research method was descriptive and correlations study. The statistical population of research consisted of all the male students of second high school Shahriyar City, Iran (3800 people). First of all, according to Morgan’s suggested table, 340 students were selected by multistage cluster random sampling from this population. Second, all participants were asked to complete contingencies of self-worth tests of Crocker et al., and Oxford Happiness Questionnaire. The final academic semester GPA was considered as a measure of academic achievement. Then, the data were analyzed with descriptive and inferential statistics such as frequency, percentage, mean, standard deviation, Pearson's correlation coefficient and regression analyses. The results of Pearson correlation revealed that there were significant relation between the contingencies of self -worth and happiness with academic achievement. And, the correlation between happiness and contingencies of self- worth were negative and significant. In general, the result of regression analysis indicated that happiness is the best predicator of academic achievement. Educational specialists should pay attention to psychological variables along with formal education.