The Study of the Effect of Cognitive Self-Compassion on Mental Well-Being and Social Competence of Students with Depression

Abstract The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between help seeking and teacher-student relationship with the mediating role of achievement goals and achievement motivation. The statistical population of this study were students of Tehran province who studied in the seventh and ninth grades in the academic year of 1398-99. The sample of this study was 317 boys and girls students and was chosen by multi-stage cluster sampling and all of them completed the Ryan and Pintrich (1997) questionnaires, Murray and Zurich’s (2010) teacher-student relationship questionnaires, Herman’s (1997) achievement motivation questionnaires and Eliot and McGregor (2001) achievement goals. Data were analyzed by Pearson correlation and path analysis. The findings showed that the direct effect of the teacher-student relationship on achievement motivation and the direct effect of the mastery approach on achievement motivation were positive and significant. The direct effect of performance-avoidance on help-seeking was negative and significant. The indirect effect of the teacher-student relationship on the help seeking by mediating of mastery approach and performance avoiding was positive and significant, and also the indirect effect of the teacher-student relationship on the help seeking by mediating achievement motivation was positive and significant. The results of this study will be useful for education and higher education centers, especially for teachers, to increase the help seeking and teacher-student relationship and also motivation among students. Keywords: help seeking, teacher-student relationship, achievement goals, and achievement motivation. Extended Abstract Introduction One of the most prevalent and debilitating problems of adults and young adults is depression, and it is so widespread that it is referred to as a mental “cold” among mental disorders (Madmali et al., 2016). The prevalence of this disorder is reported to be 14% among boys and 28% among girls (Zebrig et al., 2017). Psychological well-being is among the factors affected by depression disorder (Smith et al., 2017). The feeling of mental well-being or having life satisfaction is a field of positive psychology that tries to evaluate the cognitive judgment of people's satisfaction/dissatisfaction and emotions (positive and negative values) from their lives in various situations, such as school, work, and daily life (Desi & Ryan, 2008). Another skill that may be affected by depressed s