The effects of self-affirmation method on academic performance, stereotype threat, stress and academic motivation of male students in the third grade of secondary schools in Ilam

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Document Type : Research Paper

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1 PhD Student Educational Psychology, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran

2 Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran

3 Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Education and Psychology, Shahid Chamran University of Ahvaz, Ahvaz, Iran

Abstract

The purpose of the current research is to determine the self-affirmation method on academic performance, stereotype threat, stress, and academic motivation of male students in the third grade of secondary schools in Ilam city. The current research method is a field experiment with a pre-test-post-test design with an active control group. The statistical population of this research is all the male students of public schools of Ilam who studied in these schools in the academic year of 1400-1401 wich 60 people who scored one standard deviation lower than the average in the mentioned test and met the criteria for entering the project were selected and randomly assigned to two experimental and control groups. The companies completed the questionnaire of Spontaneous Self-Affirmation Measure, academic performance (main course average), Stereotype Threat Experienced Scale, Depression, Anxiety and Stress Scale 21 and Academic Motivation Scale for the pre-test and post-test. Then, the experimental group received the self-affirmation intervention while the control group experienced an ineffective intervention. In this research, statistical methods of multiple covariance analysis (MANCVA) and univariate analysis (ANCVA) were used. In this way, self-affirmation significantly increases academic performance and intrinsic motivation, while it causes significantly reduce stereotype threat, stress and extrinsic motivation.

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Journal of Applied Psychological Research

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Available Online from 25 January 2025

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History

  • Receive Date: 12 November 2022
  • Revise Date: 22 December 2022
  • Accept Date: 15 January 2023
  • First Publish Date: 25 January 2025
  • Publish Date: 25 January 2025

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