en روان شناسی تربیتی Educational Psychology پژوهشي Original <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="color:#6633ff;">The present study aimed to investigate the role of the feelings of security in possessing citizenship in predicting academic competence and quality of life in </span><span style="color:#6633ff;">derelict and unsupervised adolescents</span><span style="color:#6633ff;">. The current research is practical in terms of its purpose and correlation type in terms of method. The statistical population of this research included all derelict and unsupervised adolescents of Khorramabad (Iran) in 2022. The participants were 120 people (age range 15 - 18 years) from adolescents residing in boarding centers were selected using accessible sampling method. In order to collect data, Academic Competence Evaluation Scales (DiPerna & Elliott, 1999), Feelings of security in possessing citizenship Scale (Samara & Barzegar, 2015) and Quality of Life Scale (Skevington et al., 2004) were used. The hypotheses were examined by multiple regression. The results revealed that the association between feelings of security in possessing citizenship and academic competence and quality of life is significant (P < 0.01). Also, the regression results indicated that feelings of security in possessing citizenship accounted for 8.2% of the variance in the prediction of academic competence and quality of life (P<0.001). In general, based on the findings of the research, the feelings of security in possessing citizenship in derelict and unsupervised adolescents has a significant effect on their academic competence and quality of life. Based on this, it is possible to enhance the educational and social processes of derelict and unsupervised adolescents by improving awareness of feelings of security in possessing citizenship in them.</span></span></span></div> Feelings of security in possessing citizenship, academic competence, quality of life, derelict and unsupervised adolescents 160 170 http://ieepj.hormozgan.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-650-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Pari Karamimoghadam r.karami1986@yahoo.com 100319475328460010171 2141-8790-5460-1132 No PhD in Educational Psychology, Islamic Azad University, Zanjan Branch, Zanjan, Iran Shahram Rahnama Hassanvand Rahnama.sh@lu.ac.ir 100319475328460010172 7686-9091-5674-3034 No Assistant Professor, Department of Islamic Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran Ahmad Haghi Hagi.a@lu.ac.ir 100319475328460010173 8971-5470-1132-2024 No Assistant Professor, Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran Rasoul Karamimoghadam Karami.r@lu.ac.ir 100319475328460010174 5664-3291-5540-9021 Yes Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science and Law, Faculty of Humanities, Lorestan University, Khorramabad, Iran