Pages: 14-19

Abstract

Vitality is one of the components of the subjective well-being in many research systems. Due to the importance of this issue, each country has developed a national index of subjective well-being for its own society. It seems that it is useful for the education department to pay attention to the relationship between the quality of school life and academic vitality to train capable, interested and lively people who take the advantage of opportunities and face up to the challenges or adapt themselves to these challenges. Therefore, this study aimed to investigate the relationship between the quality of school life and the academic vitality of second-grade students of high school. The research method was descriptive and its type was survey research and in terms of performance, was field study. In this research, 8135 second-grade high school students from Savojbolagh were selected by the simple random sampling method during the academic year of 2018-2019. In order to collect information, Williams and Button questionnaire of quality of school life and Hossein Chari and Dehghanzadeh questionnaire of academic vitality were used. SPSS 19 was used to analyze the data. The results of this study showed that there is a direct relationship between the academic vitality and all components of quality of life (general satisfaction, positive emotions, relationship with teacher, opportunity, progress, adventure, social cohesion). Also, there is a correlation of 0.85 between the academic vitality and quality of school life (general satisfaction, positive emotions, relationship with teacher, opportunity, progress, adventure, social cohesion), and 73% of the academic vitality variable of students by components of quality of school life (general satisfaction, positive emotions, relationship with teacher, opportunity, progress, social cohesion) are explained and 0.14 positive emotions, 0.28 adventure, and 0.76 social cohesion play an important role in the academic vitality of students.