Assessing the Role of Coping Styles as Mediators for Hope and Optimism in Measuring Academic Motivation among First Generation Learners

The present study was conducted to examine the impact of positive psychological strengths hope and optimism on academic motivation. To study the role of proactive coping, avoidance coping and emotion coping as a mediator of hope and optimism with academic motivation of students. College students participated. Significant positive relations found for hope and optimism. Regression analysis showed proactive coping significantly mediated the relations of hope and optimism with academic motivation.