M.A. Thesis:

Studying the role of psychological capital on educational motivation in High School Students

The purpose of the present research was to study the relationship between components of psychological capital and educational motivation among second grade high school students of Sabzevar. It was a descriptive-correlation research and includes 220 second grade high school students of Sabzevar who were selected by cluster and random sampling. Data were obtained by questionnaires of Lotanz et al. psychological capital (2007) and Hermans educational motivation (T. M. A). They have been analyzed by SPSS software, Pearson correlation tests and uni-variate regression. The results show that there is positive and significant relationship between psychological capital and educational motivation (P<0. 01). as well as, the results indicate that self-efficacy, hope, tolerance and optimism predict positive educational motivation (P<0. 01). findings demonstrate that self-efficacy, hope, tolerance and optimism are considered as psychological capital in educational motivation and it can direct the future interventions in this context to a certain extent.

Keywords: psychological capital, educational motivation, students