Investigating the Status of Academic Alienation and its Relationship with Competency Perception in Students

The purpose of this study was to investigate the status of academic alienation and its relationship with students' perceptions of competence. This was a descriptive correlational study. The statistical population of this study consisted of all the students of Islamic Azad University of Urmia Branch, with a volume of 13439, which were determined by using Cochran formula, 373 students who were selected by stratified random sampling method. The tools used in the present study are the Dillon & Grovet Academic Alienation Questionnaire (1976) and the competence of William Dessie and Ryan (2000). Analysis of variance (MANOVA), t-test and Pearson correlation were used to test the research hypotheses. The results showed that academic alienation and perception of competence were not significantly different among students and also there was a significant negative relationship between the dimensions of academic alienation (feeling of isolation, anomaly and disability) at the level of 0.95 with competency perception among students. Based on the results, some suggestions were made.