The role of attributional styles in attitudes toward online learning mediated by corona anxiety disorder in Yazd University students

The aim of this study was to investigate the role of attributional styles in attitudes toward online learning mediated by coronary anxiety in Yazd University students.

The present study was descriptive-correlational. The sample consisted of 280 people from all students of all academic years of the academic year 1399-1499 and the method of voluntary sampling. To collect data from the attributional style questionnaires of Seligman et al. 2017) and Corona Anxiety et al. (1398) were used. Data analysis was performed by correlation and structural equation modeling with 24 AMOS software..

Positive attribution directly, positively and significantly predict the attitude to online learning (β = 0.26). Negative attribution predict inverse, negative and significant attitudes toward online learning (β = -0.55) as well as directly and positively and significantly predict coronary anxiety (β = 0.79). Finally, the results showed that coronary anxiety could not be a mediator.

In general, the results showed that people with positive attribution style had a more positive attitude towards online learning and people with negative attribution style had a more negative attitude and also people with negative attribution style experienced more coronary anxiety.