Investigating the relationship between blended learning and feeling of rejection with academic performance in Payam Noor University students with the mediating role of academic enthusiasm

The present study aimed to investigat the relationship between blended learning and feeling of rejection with academic performance in Payam Noor University students with the mediating role of academic enthusiasm. The research was done descriptively and survey. The statistical population was 743 students of Khalkhal Payam Noor University that 248 people were selected as a sample using available sampling method and with the help of Morgan's table. To collect the data, Amand et al’s blended education made-researcher and   feeling of rejection (2020) and Wang et al’s academic enthusiasm (2011) questionnaires, and the students’ grades at the end of the academic semester were used. Correlation coefficient was used to explain the relationships between variables and structural equations were used for modeling.  Initial finding showed the correlation coefficient between belended education and academic enthusiasm with academic performance (0.369. and 0.386) with a positive relationship, but between belended education and feeling of rejection with academic performance (-0.212) with a negative relationship. The findings of the structural analysis also showed the positive effect of belended education with the mediating role of academic enthusiasm on academic performance (β= 0.37), but the negative effect of the feeling of rejection with the mediating role of academic enthusiasm on academic performance (β= -0.28). The final result was that blended education along with academic enthusiasm as a mediating factor reduced the negative effects of feeling of rejiection on students’academic performance.