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The Role of Social Support and Perfectionism in Nursing and Midwifery Students' Academic Engagement
Omid Mirzaee Fandokht 1, Motahareh Ahmadzade , Sanaz Azizmohamadi , Mehrnaz Amjadi
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Introduction: one of the most important goals in many educational and psychological researches is to study the factors that increase or decrease students' academic eagerness. Therefore, the aim of this study was to investigate the role of social support and perfectionism in the academic enthusiasm of the nursing and midwifery students of Karaj city, Iran.
Methods: The research method is descriptive correlational. The population of this study included all students of the Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery of the city of Karaj in the academic year 2018-2019. Using stratified sampling, 312 people were selected based on Morgan's table. 310 people responded to Frederic et al. (2004), Social Support Wax et al. (1986) and Multidimensional Perfectionism Scale of Tehran Basharat (2007). To test the hypotheses, Pearson correlation and multiple regression were used in step-by-step method.
Results: The results showed that there is a positive and significant correlation between dimensions of perfectionism and social support with academic eagerness, and the perfectionism and social support variables predict the academic enthusiasm that the most predictive power is related to perceptual support of the family, support of friends, community perfectionism, self-perfectionism and others.
Conclusion: Social protection and perfectionism are the most important factors in the academic eagerness of nursing and midwifery students
Keywords: social support, perfectionism, academic eagerness, students
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Article Type: Original Research | Subject: Student Interaction with Education
Received: 2019/02/11 | Accepted: 2019/04/10 | Published: 2020/08/22


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