Building a model of causal relationships between cognitive beliefs, constructive thinking, and Academic Engagement for university students

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faculty of education-Helwan university

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The current research aimed to build a model of causal relationships between cognitive beliefs, constructive thinking and academic Engagement among university students, and to verify the suitability of this model to the data of the research sample, on a sample of Helwan University students that amounted to (224) from the scientific and literary disciplines of the third and fourth grades, with an average age (21.22) and a standard deviation of (1.02), and the following tools were applied: Cognitive Beliefs Scale prepared by the researchers, The constructive thinking scale prepared by the two researchers, the academic Engagement scale prepared by the two researchers, and path analysis was used; To verify the validity of the hypotheses, the results of the current research resulted in the suitability of the proposed model to the nature of the data of the research sample, as well as the absence of a direct, statistically significant effect of cognitive beliefs on academic Engagement, while there was a direct, statistically significant effect of cognitive beliefs on constructive thinking, as well as a direct and statistically significant effect of constructive thinking on academic engagement, as well as a statistically significant indirect effect of cognitive beliefs on academic engagement through constructive thinking.

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