Attitude towards hybrid Learning and its relationship to achievement motivation and test anxiety among university students in the light of some demographic variables

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Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities, Al-Azhar University in Cairo

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The current research aimed to identify Attitude towards hybrid learning and its relationship to achievement motivation and test anxiety among university students, and to verify the possibility of predicting attitude towards hybrid learning in the light of some demographic variables, and to examine differences in attitude towards hybrid learning according to gender (males-females) and major (Scientific-literary) among university students. (400) male and female students (200 male and 200 female) participated in the research in faculties of Al-Azhar University, Faculty of Engineering, Faculty of Fundamentals of Religion, Faculty of Education for Boys in Cairo, Faculty of Humanities and the Faculty of Pharmacy for Girls in Cairo, their ages ranged between (17-22) years And that was in the academic year (2020-2021), and the research tools consisted of attitude towards hybrid learning scale, achievement motivation scale, and test anxiety scale (All prepared by researcher). Results revealed that there is a relationship between attitude towards hybrid learning and each of Achievement motivation and test anxiety. It is also possible to predict attitudes towards hybrid learning among university students through (achievement motivation, test anxiety), as well as there are no differences in attitude towards hybrid learning according to gender (males-females) and by major (scientific-literary).
 

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