The prediction of academic resilience based on academic engagement with mediating role of sense of belonging to school in students

The purpose of this study was the prediction of academic resilience based on academic engagement with the mediating role of sense of belonging to school in students. This is a descriptive- correlation research. The statistical population consisted of all female secondary school students in district 2nd Tehran city in 2018-2019. The sample size was 150 subjects based on formula Plant who were selected by cluster sampling method. The tools were used included Samuels’s academic resilience questionnaire (2004), academic engagement scale of Reeve (2013) and sense of belonging to school questionnaire of Brew, Beatty & Watt (2004). Evaluation of the proposed model with path analysis using SPSS and AMOS-24 software was done. The indirect relationships were tested by using the bootstrapping procedure in Preacher and Hayes Macro command. The proposed model had an acceptable fitness to the data. Overall, the results showed all the direct paths of academic engagement and sense of belonging to school with academic resilience were significant. Also, results showed indirect path academic engagement with academic resilience, through the moderating role of sense of belonging to school. Based on the results of the present study, it can be concluded that the relationship between academic engagements with academic resilience is not a simple linear association and it is influenced and mediating by the sense of belonging to school.