Examining the Relationship between the Emotional Atmosphere of Class and Self-Regulation with Academic Achievement of High School Students

The study aimed to examine the relationship between the emotional atmosphere of class and selfregulationwith academic achievement of high school students in Bandar Abbas. Hypotheses of theresearch are: 1. There is a relationship between the emotional atmosphere of class and academicachievement of high school students in Bandar Abbas 2. There is a relationship between selfregulationand academic achievement of high school students in Bandar Abbas. The presentresearch is descriptive and correlation-based. The statistical population of the study is all male andfemale high school students in Bandar Abbas as 700 people. 200 of them have been chosen bysimple random sampling method and Cochran formula as the sample. The data collection methodin this research is field study and questionnaire type. The following questionnaires were used in thisstudy: learning self-regulation questionnaire (SRQ-L) designed by Black and Deci (2000) as well asthe mental atmosphere of the class questionnaire made by Freizer et al (1995). Cronbach s alphatest was used to determine the reliability of the questionnaires that the reliability of self-regulationquestionnaire was 0.89 and for the emotional atmosphere questionnaire was 0.86. Academicachievement in this study means the average of the previous semester courses. Pearson correlationcoefficient test results showed a positive significant relationship between the emotionalatmosphere of class and self-regulation with academic achievement of students.

Keywords:

Emotional Atmosphere , Self-Regulation , Academic Achievement , High School Students