The main goal of this study was to investigate the association between objectively measured physical activity and academic achievement in adolescents. Students in Grades 7 and 9 (N = 255) were included. Overall, we found no significant dose-response association between physical activity and academic achievement. However, in Grade 7 total physical activity volume (Total PA) was negatively associ...

The major purposes of the presents study were (a) to examine the degree to which academic engagement mediates the relationship between parenting style and academic achievement. Data from 382 participants (191 males and 191 females) were examined using measures of parenting style, academic engagement, and self-reported grade point average. The results indicated that academic engagement mediate r...

The aim of conducting the present study was to identify the effect of the social support and functional impairment on the academic achievement of adolescents. The sample (N = 200) was taken from both public (n = 95) and private schools (n = 105) including an equal number of boys and girls of grade 9th and 10th. The age range of the sample was from 14 to 17 years. Brief Impairment Scale (Bird et...

Using data from the Michigan Study of Adolescent Life Transitions (N=744), this study examines the connection between academic self-concept, academic achievement and risky sexual behavior in college-aged females over time. The current study investigated three hypotheses: 1) academic achievement at Time 1 will be negatively related to risky sexual behavior Time 2, 2) academic self-concept at Tim...

Research has been conducted on a) relations between academic self-concept and academic achievement, which is well established in the literature, however there remains disagreement about the causal ordering of these constructs b) relations between motivation and academic achievement which show moderate-to-strong correlations and c) relations between academic self-concept and motivational indicat...

Background Learning is the most important human attribute. Cognition plays an important role in it and metacognition is another form of cognition that monitors cognitive processes and plays an important role in motivating one to learn. This study aimed at investigating the relationship between metacognition skills with academic motivation and academic achievement...

Introduction: One of the most important problems in student's education is academic failure. Identifying factors that affecting academic achievement and pay attention to these factors is a stride toward success. Students' academic achievement and related factors have priority in education research. This study aimed to determine the relationship between learning study strategies and academic a...