Building a model for the causal relationships between the dimensions of Psychological capital, Level of Aspiration, Psychological Flow and Peace of Mind for a sample of university students

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Assistant Professor -Department of Mental Health Faculty of Education, Helwan University

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The current research aimed is to build a model for the causal relationships and to verify the suitability of this model for the data of the research sample, on a sample of students of the Faculty of Art Education has reached (231), the following tools have been applied: psychological capital Scale, Level of Aspiration Scale, Psychological Flow Scale, peace of mind Scale preparing the researcher, the results of the research resulted in the suitability of the proposed model for the nature of the data of the research sample, as well as the presence of statistically significant positive direct effect for Psychological capital with its sub-dimensions in Peace of Mind, as well as the presence of statistically significant positive direct effect for Psychological capital with its sub-dimensions in Level of Aspiration in its sub-dimensions, as well as the presence of statistically significant positive direct effect for Psychological capital with its sub-dimensions in Psychological Flow in its sub-dimensions, as well as the presence of statistically significant positive direct effect for Level of Aspiration with its sub-dimensions in Psychological Flow in its sub-dimensions, as well as the presence of statistically significant negative direct effect for A tendency to struggle, endurance and persevere in Peace of Mind, as well as the presence of an indirect positive statistically significant effect for Psychological capital with its sub-dimensions in Peace of Mind through Level of Aspiration with its sub-dimensions and Psychological Flow with its sub-dimensions.

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