Research article

Investigating the Relationship between the students’ happiness and academic factors and the rate of each of factors from viewpoint of students in Iran
 

¹Mohammad Javad Liaghatdar, ²Zohre Ravangard, ^*3Somaye Shahtalebi

¹Associate Prof of the Department of Education and Psychology, The university of Isfahan, Iran

²Department of educational, Khorasgan (Isfahan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran

³Yuong researcher club, Department of educational, Khorasgan (Isfahan) Branch, Islamic Azad University, Isfahan, Iran

*Corresponding Author Email: somy_shahtalebi3430@yahoo.com

showkat80ahmad@gmail.com
Accepted 8 May, 2013

Abstract

Happy emotion is not available with the absence of negative moods, but requires some of positive circumstance in one’s life. Accordingly, this paper examined the impact of school factors (physical, educational, organizational, teachers personality, the quality of parent’s relationship with school) on the amount of happiness among middle school students in Kerman city Iran). Descriptive survey research method and 250 male and female students were selected by cluster sampling. For analyzing the data Pearson correlation and multiple regressions method were used. Findings showed that students’ happiness at school had a significant relationship to physical factors, educational factors, organizational factors, teacher’s personality and the quality of parent’s relationship with school.

Keywords: students ‘happiness ­ physical factors, teacher personality, educational factors, organizational factors