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Within this research, it is aimed to reveal the predictive and explanatory relationships among the middle school students' social studies-focused epistemological beliefs, learning approaches, academic-risk taking behaviors and their course success on the suggested model. 494 students chosen from the public middle schools in Yunusemre district of the city of Manisa in 2017-2018 academic year through simple random sampling constitute the sampling of the research in which the multi-factor complex predictive correlational pattern has been used. While determining, the students' epistemological beliefs 'Middle School Students' Epistemological Belief Inventory'; determining the learning approaches, 'Social Studies Learning Conceptions Scale', determining the academic risk taking behaviors, 'Social Studies-Oriented Academic Risk-Taking Scale'' and while determining the social studies course, success written …