title: Academic resilience in education: the role of achievement goal orientations.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  In the past 2 decades, research findings established achievement goal theory as a powerful framework for conceptualizing difference in the quality of student's engagement, persistence on task, and academic resilience. So the present study examined the relationship between achievement goal orientations and academic resilience.
  
  
  METHODS
  Participants were 606 students (307 girls and 297 boys) selected from Shiraz high schools. They completed the Achievement Goals Questionnaire and Youth development Module Scale (RYDM). To analyze the data, the relationships between variables were examined, using Pearson product-moment correlations. Also simulanteous multiple regression was performed to investigate the prediction of academic resilience by achievement goal orientations. To examine the reliability and the validity of measures Cronbach alpha coefficient and factor analysis method were applied, respectively.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Simultaneous multiple regression of achievement goal orientations on academic resilience showed that "mastery-approach" was a significant positive predictor of the "home care/high" and "peer care" subscales. Also, "performance-approach" was a significant, positive predictor of "home care/high", and "school/community meaningful" was predicted by "performance-avoidance" positively.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  According to the findings, it seems that achievement goal orientation has a critical role in students' academic achievement. Implications of the results are discussed in more details.
authors.affiliation: Educational Psychology Department, Education & Psychology School, Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran;
authors.forename: Bahram
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Jowkar
authors.affiliation: Quality Improvement in Clinical Education Research Center, Education Development Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran;
authors.forename: Javad
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Kojuri
authors.affiliation: Educational Psychology Department, Kharazmi University, Tehran, Iran;
authors.forename: Naeimeh
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kohoulat
authors.affiliation: Quality Improvement in Clinical Education Research Center, Education Development Center, Shiraz University of Medical Sciences, Shiraz, Iran;
authors.forename: Ali Asghar
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Hayat
keywords: Achivement; Education; Resilience