Evaluation of Academic Performance, Academic Motivation, Hope for the Future and Life Satisfaction of Pharmacy Students of a Medical School

Background: this study sought to investigate the evaluation of academic achievement, academic motivation and hope for the future and life satisfaction of pharmacy students of the ahvaz jundishapur university of medical sciences and their relationship with the school years passed. methods: the samples in this study were all pharmacy students studying in the college of pharmacy, the medical university of ahvaz in the year 2014-2015. in order to collect data with regard to hope, life satisfaction, motivation and academic satisfaction, the questionnaire of snyder hope scale (1991), satisfaction with life scale questionnaire (swls), lepper motivation scale (2005) and bahrani and jokar questionnaire (1378) were used respectively. moreover, data on academic performance were acquired using the gpa of the students and number failed course of students in each entry and the data were analysed by using spss 20. results: the results did not indicate any significant different in an investigation of five class of students and from four variables of hope, academic motivation, academic achievement and life satisfaction. but contrast test for combined group showed that academic motivation and academic performance in freshmen students (student who just entered university) are significantly higher than the other four inputs. third-year students possess less academic motivation than other students. senior students’ academic performance was also significantly lower than of students from other years of their curriculum. conclusion: freshmen students face challenges of the new environment, and this affects their academic performance. besides in the third year of pharmacy school curriculum, pharmacy students pass the basic exam and the main pharmaceutical courses start for them, this might be the reason that their intrinsic motivation increase.