Predicting Students' Academic Flourishing based on the Moral Intelligence: The Mediating Role of Academic Motivation, Academic Emotions, Academic Procrastination and Academic Burnout

One of the most effective factors in developing the educational system development which has a significantly direct relationship with academic performance is student flourishing. Present study aimed to develop a model for explaining academic flourishing of students based on moral intelligence, with the mediating role of academic motivation, academic emotions, academic procrastination, and academic burnout.

The present study used descriptive-correlational design with structural equation model. The population included all the students of secondary school in Tehran in the second semester of academic year 2021-2022. Through multistage random sampling method, a sample of 2010 students was selected. The students completed Moral Intelligence Questionnaire (Link& Keil, 2005), Researcher-made Academic Flourishing Questionnaire, Academic Motivation Scale (Vallerand, 1992), Achievement Emotions Questionnaire (Pekran et al. 2005), Academic Procrastination Scale (Solomon& Rothblum, 1984), and Academic Burnout Questionnaire (Schaufeli et al. 2002). Data were analyzed by using Structural Equation Model by PLS 3.

Results indicate the significantly positive effect of moral intelligence on academic flourishing and academic motivation as well as its significantly negative effect on academic emotions, academic procrastination, and academic burnout. Academic procrastination, academic emotions and academic burnout have a significantly negative effect on academic flourishing while academic motivation has a significant positive effect on it. Moral intelligence affects academic flourishing through the mediating role of academic motivation, academic emotions, academic procrastination, and academic burnout. 78 % of the academic flourishing variance is explained through the direct and indirect effect of moral intelligence.    

Accordingly, to increase the academic flourishing of students, programs can be developed for enhancing moral intelligence, which in turn results in the enhancement of academic motivation, academic emotions, academic procrastination, and academic burnout. Implications of the results are discussed in the article.