The Casual Relationship of Family Communication Pattern and Religious Orientation with Academic Buoyancy: The Roles of Self-Efficacy Dimensions

This study aimed to examine the mediating role of self-efficacy dimensions in the relationship family communication pattern and religious orientation with academic buoyancy. In this study, 392 students (205 females and 187 males) of a high school located in Poldokhtar city that were chosen by multi-stage random cluster sampling method. Participants fill out the child version of the revised family communication patterns scale, religious orientation scale, self-efficacy dimensions’ scale and academic buoyancy scale. All the tools enjoyed appropriate validity and reliability. Path analysis (PA) results showed that the conversation communication pattern and intrinsic orientation of religious has direct and indirectly led to more academic buoyancy scale through self-efficacy dimensions. Accordingly, it can be stated that the self-efficacy dimensions have played a mediatory role between conversation communication pattern and intrinsic orientation of religious with academic buoyancy. These finding emphasize the role of quality of family communications and religious orientations in promoting of self-efficacy to increase student academic buoyancy.