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The current study investigates the mediating role of basic psychological needs (autonomy competence and relatedness), motivational self-regulation (intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation and academic demotivation) and academic excitement (class enjoyment and learning hopelessness) in the relationship between environmental factors supporting student's academic autonomy and school well-being. Through multi stage cluster sampling, 520 male and female students were selected from Karaj’s high schools. The tools used in this study included teacher’s supporting student’s autonomy scale, parents’ supporting student’s autonomy scale, the scale of relationship with classmates, basic psychological needs scale, academic motivation scale, school well-being scale, and academic emotions questionnaire. Data were analyzed by confirmatory factor analysis, cronbach alpha and structural equation modeling. Findings of the study demonstrated that teacher’s supporting student’s autonomy parents’ supporting student’s autonomy and the relationships with the classmates had a significant and direct effect on the basic psychological needs. Furthermore, teacher’s supporting student’s autonomy through mediatory variables of the study didn’t have direct and significant effect on school well-being. However the indirect effect of parents’ supporting student’s autonomy was significant. Autonomy, relatedness, academic demotivation and class enjoyment had significant direct effect on school well-being. In addition, autonomy, competence, relatedness, academic intrinsic and extrinsic motivation had an indirect, significant effect on school well-being .Therefore, it can be concluded that basic psychological needs, motivational self-regulation and academic emotions played a mediating role between the environmental variables supporting student’s autonomy and school well-being.

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The present study aimed to present a structural model of academic identity, family communication patterns, and parents'perceived educational expectations with the mediating role of basic psychological needs. The research method was descriptive-correlational and structural equation modeling. The statistical population included all tenth and eleventh grade students in Yazd in the academic year 2021-2022. The statistical sample included 400 tenth and eleventh grade students who were randomly selected as clusters. To collect data, the Basic Psychological Needs Questionnaire, the Academic Identity Status Questionnaire, Family Communication Patterns Questionnaire, and the Parents' Perceived Educational Expectations Questionnaire were used. In order to examine the paths of the research model, structural equation modeling was used using PLS3 software. The results showed that parents' educational expectations, conformity pattern, and conversation pattern have a direct, positive, and significant effect on basic psychological needs. The results also showed that basic psychological needs have a direct, negative, and significant effect on the follower identity and the confused identity and a direct, positive, and significant effect on the latecomer identity and the successful identity. Finally, the results showed that basic psychological needs play a mediating role in the relationship between academic identity and family communication patterns and parents'perceived educational expectations.