-A Study of First-Year Student Adjustment to College in relation to Academic-Self efficacy, Academic Motivation and Satisfaction with college environment

Salmain Davood1  , Nikfal Azar Nasrin2  , Salmani Arezoo3 

International Journal of Scientific Management and Development  2014, Vol. 2, No. 5: 87-93 

Abstract

In present study we investigated the relationship between Firs- Year Academic-Selfefficacy, Academic Motivation and student satisfaction with college environment to provide a model for improving first year college student adjustment to college.From among statistical population of 4585 bachelor first year student,357 person were determined as the sample of study by random selection.Three standard questionnaire were used for collection of data for this study, namely academic self-efficacy (Owen&Forman,1988), academic motivation(Vallerand et al.1993) and student satistaction (Laurie A.Schreiner& et al.1994). Structural equation modeling was employed using Amos version7.16 to test the adequacy of the hypothesized model. Inclusion of additional relationship in the initial model improved the goodness indices considerably (RMEA=0.098, IFI=0.92, CFI=0.92).

The results suggest that academic self-efficacy were related positively to adjustment , both directly and indirectly through student satisfaction and academic motivation (B=0.9, r=0.01).The results indicate a need to develop programs that effectively promote the academic self-efficacy of first year university students to maximize their adjustment.

Key words: adjustment,academic efficacy,academic motivation, satisfaction