فهرست نشریات علمی دسترسی آزاد ایران

Background: The issue of students’ academic failure is one of the most important educational,economic, and social issues. Cognizance of the factors related to academic downfall is so efficientin its prevention and control and leads to protecting governmental assets and labor force. Inorder to achieve this goal, this study intends to determine the predictive factors of the students’academic performance in Isfahan University of Medical Sciences in terms of their personality profile,mental health, and their demographic characteristics. Materials and Methods: This study was adescriptive‑correlation study on 771 students who entered Isfahan University of Medical Sciencesbetween 2005 and 2007. The information was gathered through using the students’ educational andclinical files (for measuring personality characteristics and mental health) and SAMA Software (Toget the mean scores). Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory short form and General HealthQuestionnaire were used for collecting clinical data. The data were analyzed using SPSS 15(stepwiseregression coefficient, variance analysis, Student’s t‑test, and Spearman correlation coefficient).Result: The results showed that the aforementioned students obtained a normal average for theirpersonality profile and mental health indicators. Of all the reviewed variables, education, age, gender,depression, and hypochondria were the predictive factors of the students’ educational performance.Conclusion: It could be concluded that some of the personality features, mental health indicators,and personality profile play such a significant role in the students’ educational life that the disorderin any of them affects the students’ educational performance and academic failure.