The Level of Ambition and its Relationship to Psychological Flow among Students of Specific and Regular Programs at the Faculty of Specific Education, Mansoura University

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Psychological and Educational Sciences Department, Faculty of Specific Education, Mansoura University, Egypt

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The study aimed to find out the relationship between psychological flow and the level of ambition among a sample of students of the Faculty of Specific Education, Mansoura University, who are enrolled in the first and second academic year in both the distinguished program (computer techniques teacher in English) and the regular program (computer teacher). The researcher used the descriptive correlation method. The study was conducted on a sample of (107) male and female students who were randomly selected. The study used the psychological flow scale and the academic ambition scale. The results showed that the level of psychological flow among the study sample enrolled in the distinguished program (teacher of computer techniques in English) was high except for the change in the sense of time, and there were no statistically significant differences between the students of the qualitative program and the students of the regular program at the Faculty of Specific Education in the absence of self-awareness. The value of "t" was equal to (1.27), which is a value that is not statistically significant at the level of significance of 0.05, and that the level of academic ambition of the study sample enrolled in the distinguished program (teacher of computer techniques in English) was high, and the results showed that there was a direct positive statistically significant relationship between Psychological flow and between the academic ambition of the study sample in each of the distinguished program (computer techniques teacher in English) and the regular program (computer teacher) except for the feedback and the absence of self-awareness.

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