The Effect of Mindfulness on Academic Achievement, and Academic Adjustment: The Mediation Role of Academic Self-concept

Abstract

The purpose of the present research was to investigate the relationship between mindfulness with academic achievement, and academic adjustment with the mediation role of academic self- concept among girl students of Farhangian university of Kerman. The research method was descriptive of path analysis. The sample composed of 299 students who were selected using simple random sampling method. In this research, in order to collect the data, grade point average of the first half of academic year, students’ adaptation to college questionnaire of Baker and Siryk (SACQ), the Freiburg mindfulness inventory (FMI), and academic self-concept questionnaire (ASCQ) were used. To analyze the data, descriptive statistics such as mean and standard deviation and in order to analyze the inferential data path analysis were used. The results of path analysis indicate that mindfulness has a direct and a significant relationship with academic achievement and academic adjustment, and academic self-concept has a mediation role with academic achievement and academic adjustment. From this research it is concluded that mindfulness increases academic achievement, academic adjustment, and academic self-concept. Thus, providing training based on improving mindfulness in academic environments would lead to an increase in academic achievement, academic adjustment, and academic self-concept.

Keywords

• mindfulness
• academic achievement
• academic adjustment
• academic self-concept