Multi-Group Path Analysis between Self-Forgiveness and Self- Exoneration Contributing to Academic Procrastination across Samples of Postgraduate Students at the Egyptian Universities

Mustafa, Manal. M.M

doi:10.21608/jsre.2020.130778

Multi-Group Path Analysis between Self-Forgiveness and Self- Exoneration Contributing to Academic Procrastination across Samples of Postgraduate Students at the Egyptian Universities

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Manal. M.M Mustafa

Mustafa M.M. Manal, Associate professor of Educational Psychology, Department of Educational &lrm;Psychology , Faculty of Graduate Studies of Education , University of Cairo. &lrm;

10.21608/jsre.2020.130778

Abstract

The current research aims at identifying the best structural model for causal relationships between the independent variable of self- forgiveness, the self-exoneration (intermediate variable), and the academic procrastination (dependent variable) for two samples of MA and PhD students at the Egyptian Universities. Three scales were authored by the researcher (i.e. self forgiveness, self-exoneration, and academic procrastination). Through the confirmatory factorial analysis, the three scales validity was verified. Using the descriptive correlation and comparative methodology, as well as the multi-group path analysis on a sample of 487 students. A direct negative effect was found for self-forgiveness on self-exoneration and also for self-forgiveness on academic procrastination. In addition, it was found a direct positive effect of self-exoneration on academic procrastination; and both partial and complete negative effect for self-forgiveness on self-exoneration as an intermediate variable in academic procrastination of MA and PhD students. The research also found no statistically significant differences in multi-samples path analysis (the unconstrained, structural weighs and structural variation model) between the MA and PhD students. Moreover, there were found statistically significant difference between the two samples in the structural residual co-variation model. The models explain the causal relationship between the independent variable of self-forgiveness, the self-exoneration (intermediate variable), and the academic procrastination (dependent variable). Finally, a difference was found between post-graduate studies students in the Egyptian universities according to grade (MA Vs. PhD) in mean scores of self-forgiveness, self-exoneration, and academic procrastination.

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Educational psychology

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