چکیده (انگلیسی):

he present study has been undertaken with the objective of structural equation modeling
related to the relationship between the family’s social, economic, cultural conditions, emotional family
atmosphere and parenting styles with academic motivation. As shown that the research method was
descriptive – correlational. For this research, 600 high school students in Tehran were selected by
multistage cluster sampling. Four Academic Motivation Scales (Vallerand /AMS), emotional family
atmosphere, questionnaire related to the parenting styles and economic, cultural and social conditions was
used in this research in order to data collection. Data were analyzed using descriptive statistics, path
analysis method, structural equation modeling and multivariate regression analysis. According to the
conducted research, the initial model was used to examine the relationships between variables affecting
academic motivation. Data analysis showed that the model used in this study is very valuable. Also, it
showed that emotional atmosphere, economic condition, social condition and cultural conditions had a
direct and meaningful effect on parenting styles while the loss of family circumstances had a significant and
direct effect only on emotional atmosphere. But emotional atmosphere effect and economic condition on
academic motivation was meaningful. Cultural -social conditions and emotional atmosphere had a
significant and indirect effect on academic motivation. The results indicated that family circumstances has
explained and predicted 19% of the academic motivation variable.