The Mediating Role of Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction in the Relationship between Regulatory Focus and Psychological Flourishing among University Students

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Educational psychology- Faculty of education- Benha university

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The present study aimed at investigating the level of regulatory focus among faculty of education students, it also aimed at reaching a causal model for explaining the impact relationships between regulatory focus (promotion and prevention) as an independent variable, basic psychological needs satisfaction (autonomy, competence, relatedness) as mediating variables and psychological flourishing (positive emotion, engagement, social relationships, sense of meaning and accomplishment) as dependent variables. The sample consisted of 540 (44 male- 474 female) students of the second year in the Faculty of Education, University of Benha. The study uses the following tools: Regulatory focus scale (developed by VanKrevelen (2017), and translated into Arabic by the researcher), basic psychological needs satisfaction scale (developed by Johnston & Finney (2010), and translated into Arabic by the researcher) and psychological flourishing scale developed by Hanaa Zaki and Sameh Harb (2021). The findings revealed that there is a very high level of prevention focus and high level of promotion focus. The finding of path analysis revealed that:
There are significant direct effects of regulatory focus dimensions on each of basic psychological needs satisfaction. There are significant direct effects of regulatory focus dimensions on some of psychological flourishing dimensions. There are significant direct effects of basic psychological needs satisfaction on some or each of psychological flourishing dimensions. There are significant indirect effects (through basic psychological needs satisfaction) of regulatory focus dimensions on psychological flourishing dimensions

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