Structural Relationships Modeling of High School Students' Scholastic Adjustment and Performance based on Attachment to the Teacher with Mediation of Problematic Cell phone Use

This study was conducted to examine the structural relationships modeling of high school students’ performance and scholastic adjustment based on attachment to the teacher with the mediation of the problematic cell phone use (PCU). This descriptive-correlational research used structural equations modeling. From among students of the academic year 2021-2022, 748 male and female junior high school students of Rasht city were selected by two-stage cluster sampling method. They responded to the electronic version of Baker and Siryk’s Student Adaptation to College Questionnaire (1984), Pham and Taylor’s academic performance questionnaire (1990), Jenaro’s cell phone overuse scale (2007) and Attachment to the Teacher Scale by Lavasani and Mehdipour (2015). The results indicated that secure attachment to teacher has a constructive role in students' academic performance and adaptability, and neutralizes the impact of PCU. In addition, in students with anxious/avoidant attachment to teacher, PCU creates a compensatory role for the lack of secure attachment. It is essential that students and teachers learn how to create a secure attachment to improve students' performance and academic adjustment.