Modeling the Causal Relationships between Psychological Resilience, Psychological Flow, and Psychological Well-being, among Student of University

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Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education, Alexandria University, Egypt

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The research aimed to identify the causal relationships between psychological Resilience, psychological Flow, and psychological Well-being,  for university students, and finding the model that determines the direct, indirect and total effects of psychological resilience (independent), psychological flow (mediator) and psychological well-being (dependent), and the research used the descriptive approach, and the research sample consisted of (406) students; with (51) male and (355) female, including (210) students of literary department and (196) students of scientific department, there age ranged between (19:23) years old, the average age was (20,97), and the standard deviation was (1.238), The following tools were used (psychological well-being scale, psychological resilience scale, and psychological flow scale), The researcher verified the equivalence between the research groups in the variables of resilience, flow, and psychological well-being in terms of gender (male - female), academic specialization (scientific - literary), the research results of the statistical analysis that :There are a positive correlation with statistical significance at the level 0.01 between the variables of Resilience, Flow, and psychological Well-being, at the level of the overall degree and dimensions among the participants in research, the results also found that: psychological flow partially mediates the role of mediation in the proposed model between psychological resilience and psychological well-being, and the model achieved acceptable indicators to indicate its conformity with the data of the participants in research.

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