Modeling the Causal Relationships between Academic Identity Patterns, Academic Passion, and Psychological Flourishing among Students of the Faculty of Islamic Girls, Al-Azhar University, Assiut

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Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education (Boys) in Assiut, Al-Azhar University, Egypt

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This research aims at revealing the direct and indirect effects of academic identity patterns as an independent variable in psychological flourishing as a dependent variable through academic passion as a mediator variable among female university students through presenting a proposed causal model hypothesizing that there are direct and indirect effects of academic identity patterns on psychological flourishing. The research aims also at revealing the predictability of academic passion and psychological flourishing from patterns of academic identity. A group of 412 female students at the Faculty of Islamic Girls in Assuit, Al-Azhar University participated in the basic research. The academic identity scale, the academic passion scale, and the psychological flourishing scale were applied to them. The descriptive-analytical approach was followed. Using the path analysis method, the results demonstrated the following: the proposed model achieved a goodness of fit level with the data of the research participants, there were direct negative statistically significant effects of identity (foreclosed, moratorium) while the positive statistically significant effects were for the (achieved) identity, there were direct positive statistically significant effects of the (moratorium) identity on the (obsessive) passion, there were direct negative statistically significant effect of the (diffused and foreclosed) identity on the psychological flourishing, there were direct positive statistically significant effects of the (harmonious) passion in academic flourishing while the direct negative statistically significant effects were for (obsessive) passion, there were negative indirect statistically significant effects for (foreclosed and moratorium) identity in the psychological flourishing through (harmonious) passion while the indirect positive statistical significant effects were for the (achieved) identity, and there were negative indirect statistically significant effects for the (moratorium) identity in the psychological flourishing through (obsessive passion) while the indirect positive statistical significant effects was for the (achieved) identity. The results also indicated that academic passion and psychological flourishing can be predicted through academic identity patterns. 
 
 

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