Investigating the relationship between positive thoughts with self-confidence and active learning

Today, one of the most important concerns of education is to increase the quality of learning in students and solve learning problems in them.Therefore, the present study was conducted to investigate and determine the effect of having positive thoughts on self-confidence and active learning of students in Zahak, Sistan and Baluchestan.

The present descriptive-analytical cross-sectional study was performed on seventh, eighth and ninth grade students of Zahak, Sistan and Baluchestan schools in 1401. Students were assessed using a questionnaire containing questions related to positive thinking, self-confidence and active learning. Finally, the data were entered into SPSS V20 software and analyzed.

In the present study, 190 students were included in the study and evaluated. The mean age of participants was 14.24 ± 0.87 years and the minimum and maximum ages were 13 and 16 years, respectively. 50.5% of the students were girls. The results showed that there was a significant correlation between the positive thoughts score of the participants in the present study and their self-confidence score (p = 0.000, r = 0.674). As a result, it was found that with increasing students' positive thoughts score, their average self-confidence score also increased. Also, a significant correlation was found between the positive thoughts score and the students' active learning variable (p = 0.000, r = 0.712), so that the students who had a higher positive thoughts score had a significantly higher active active learning score. There was no significant relationship between students' age and educational background with positive thinking, self-esteem and active learning scores, however, female students had higher positive thinking scores than male students. These findings were statistically significant (P = 0.007). The mean scores of self-confidence and active learning did not differ significantly between the two sexes (P> 0.05).

The results of this study showed that having positive thoughts in students is associated with increased self-confidence and active learning.