The trend towards digital transformation and its relationship to perceived academic support and orientation towards the future among Al-Azhar University students

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Psychology at the Faculty of Human Studies –Al-Azhar Universty

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The current study aimed at identifying the attitudes of Al-Azhar University students towards digital transformation, as well as examining the nature of the relationship between the trend towards digital transformation, perceived academic support and orientation towards the future, and revealing the possibility of predicting the trend towards digital transformation with perceived academic support and orientation towards the future among Al-Azhar University students, and also Detecting the effect of some demographic variables such as gender (male-female) and the study group (first-fourth) on the trend towards digital transformation. Normative (3.74), and a measure of the trend towards digital transformation and a measure of perceived academic support and a measure of orientation towards the future were prepared and their psychometric characteristics were calculated. Perceived, and the existence of a statistically significant relationship between the trend towards digital transformation and the orientation towards the future among Al-Azhar University students, and the results also resulted in the contribution of each of the perceived academic support And the orientation towards the future in predicting the trend towards digital transformation among the sample members, and the results also concluded that there was no statistically significant interaction in the direction towards digital transformation between males and females and between the study group, and indicated that there were statistically significant differences in the direction towards digital transformation between males and females in favor of females And there are no statistically significant differences according to the study group.        
 

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