The attitude towards E-Learning and its relationship to academic self-Efficacy and social interaction among university students.

Farag, Aisha Abd Elfattah Ibrahim

doi:10.21608/jsrep.2021.219810

The attitude towards E-Learning and its relationship to academic self-Efficacy and social interaction among university students.

Document Type : Original Article

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Aisha Abd Elfattah Ibrahim Farag

Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities ,Al-Azhar University.

10.21608/jsrep.2021.219810

Abstract

The current research aimed to identify the relationship between the The attitude towards E-Learning and academic self-efficacy and social interaction among university students.And to verify the possibility of predicting attitudes towards E-learning among university students through both (academic self-efficacy and social interaction). And the examine differences in the attitude towards E-Learning according to gender (males - females) and academic major (literary - scientific) among University Students. and (300) male and female students (150 male and 150 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 (20-22) years And that was in the academic year (2020-2021). And the research tools consisted of attitude towards E-Learning scale (prepared by researcher), academic self-efficacy scale (prepared by researcher) and social interaction (prepared by researcher). Results revealed that there is a relationship between attitude towards E-Learning and each of (academic self-efficacy - social interaction) .It is also possibility of predicting attitude towards E-Learning among university students through both (academic self-efficacy and social interaction). As well as there are no differences in attitude towards E-Learning according to gender (males - females) and academic major (literary - scientific).

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