Thesis:

Prediction of academic self-concept based on academic counterproductive beliefs and the mediating role of academic self-discipline in female second year high school students of Sabzevar city 2023-2024

The present study was conducted with the aim of predicting academic self-concept based on academic counterproductive beliefs and the mediating role of academic self-discipline in female second year high school students of Sabzevar city in 2023-2024. The research method is descriptive-correlation and specifically based on the structural equation model. The statistical population included all female students of the second year of high school in Sabzevar city, numbering (6050), of which 361 were selected using Morgan's table and multi-stage cluster sampling method. and Thompson (2004), academic unproductive beliefs (2012), academic self-regulation Pintrich and de Groot (1990) were used. The collected data were analyzed by Pearson correlation method and structural equation modeling using SPSS22 and Smart PLS software. The results of the research indicated the existence of a significant relationship between academic unproductive beliefs, academic self-concept and academic self-regulation. Also, the mediating role of academic academic self-discipline in the relationship between academic counterproductive beliefs and academic self-concept was confirmed.

Keywords: academic self-concept, academic counterproductive beliefs, academic self-discipline.