Causal Structure of Antecedents and Consequences of Health-Oriented Academic Lifestyle in Gifted Girl Students

Abstract

This study examined the mediating role of facilative and preventive behaviors of health-oriented life style on the relationship between perfectionism and cognitive emotion regulation with academic well-being and achievement emotions among gifted girl students. 400 students answered to the Multidimensional Perfectionism Cognitions Inventory (Kobori, 2006), the Achievement Emotions Questionnaire (Abdollahpour, 2015), the Schoolwork Engagement Inventory (Salmela-Aro & Upadaya, 2012), the School Burnout Inventory (Salmela-Aro, Kiuru, Leskinen & Nurmi, 2009), Cognitive Emotion Regulation Questionnaire-Revised (Garenofski & Kraaij, 2006) and Health-oriented life-style Questionnaire (Salehzadeh et al, 2017). Results showed that the competed mediated model of behaviors on the relationship between cognitive emotion regulation and perfectionism with academic well-being and achievement emotions had good fit to data. All of the regression weights in the hypothesized model were statistically significant. In sum, results showed that a part of emotional functioning of gifted in academic situation, can be explained through their difference in cognitive/emotional/behavioral characteristics.

Keywords

• perfectionism
• achievement emotions
• academic well-being
• cognitive emotion regulation strategies
• health-oriented academic lifestyle