The role of meta-emotion, androgynous personality and family functioning in predicting unproductive behaviors of female second-year high school students

Document Type : Research Paper

Authors

1 Associate Professor, Department of psychology, University of Maragheh, Maragheh, Iran.

2 azad university

10.22034/jmpr.2023.58187.5782

Abstract

The present study was conducted with the aim of investigating the role of meta-emotion, androgynous personality and family functioning in predicting the unproductive behaviors of female students of the second year of high school. This research is descriptive of the type of correlation studies. The statistical population of this research was the female students of the second year of high school in the academic year of 2022-2023 in Urmia city, their number was 7315, and from this population, using Morgan's table and using random cluster sampling method, the number 364 people were selected. To collect data, Rimex's non-productive academic behavior questionnaire (2012), Mitmansgraber et al.'s meta-emotion questionnaire (2009), Bam's gender role scale (1974) and Epstein et al.'s (2003) family functioning questionnaire were used. The data were analyzed with the Pearson's correlation and step-by-step regression analysis. The results of the research showed that there is a negative and significant relationship between positive meta-emotion and unproductive academic behaviors. there is a positive and significant relationship between negative meta-emotion and unproductive academic behaviors. There is a negative and significant relationship between androgynous personality and unproductive academic behaviors. There is a positive and significant relationship between family functioning and it’s components with academically unproductive behaviors. Also, the results of the regression analysis showed that androgynous personality, family functioning, and positive and negative meta-emotion are able to predict changes in academically unproductive behaviors.

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Articles in Press, Corrected Proof
Available Online from 30 December 2023
  • Receive Date: 29 August 2023
  • Revise Date: 10 October 2023
  • Accept Date: 15 October 2023