en روان شناسی تربیتی Educational Psychology پژوهشي Original <div style="text-align: justify;"><span style="color:#3300ff;"><span style="font-size:14px;"><span style="font-family:Times New Roman;"><span style="line-height:2;"><b>Objective:</b>&nbsp;This study aimed to explore the mediating role of psychological adjustment in the relationship between academic quality of life and self-regulation among high school students.<br> <b>Methods:</b>&nbsp;The research followed an applied, descriptive-correlational design. The statistical population comprised all male and female secondary school students in Baharestan during the 2023 academic year. A stratified sampling method was used to select 300 eligible participants, ensuring representation across genders (male and female) and grade levels (tenth, eleventh, and twelfth). Data were collected using validated questionnaires assessing academic quality of life, self-regulation, and psychological adjustment. Pearson correlation analysis was conducted using SPSS (Version 24) to examine variable relationships.<br> <b>Results:</b>&nbsp;The findings indicated a significant indirect effect of self-regulation on academic quality of life through psychological adjustment (p&nbsp;< 0.05). Additionally, the direct relationship between self-regulation and academic quality of life was positive and statistically significant (p&nbsp;< 0.01).<br> <b>Conclusions: </b>The study highlights the crucial mediating role of psychological adjustment in enhancing the relationship between self-regulation and academic quality of life. Students with stronger self-regulation skills tend to experience better psychological adjustment, which in turn positively influences their academic quality of life.</span></span></span></span></div> Quality of academic life, Self-regulation, Psychological adjustment, High school students 0 0 http://ieepj.hormozgan.ac.ir/browse.php?a_code=A-10-985-1&slc_lang=en&sid=1 Maryam khastan khmastan@gmail.com 100319475328460011451 100319475328460011451 No PhD student in General Psychology, College of human science, Saveh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Saveh, Iran Seyed Mahmood Mirzamani Bafghi mirmzamani@gmail.com 100319475328460011452 100319475328460011452 Yes Professor, Department of Clinical Psychology, Science and Research Unit, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran Beheshteh Niusha s_mm1723@yahoo.com 100319475328460011453 100319475328460011453 No Associate Professor of Psychology Department, College of human science ,Saveh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Saveh, Iran