Modeling the causal relationships between mind wandering: and each of: mindfulness, academic emotions, and achievement among university students

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1 Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology - College of Education - Tanta University - College of Education - Associate Professor of Educational Psychology, King Khalid University - Saudi Arabia

2 Assistant Professor of Educational Measurement and Evaluation College of Education - King Khalid University Saudi Arabia

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The aim of the current study is to develop a constructive model for the relationships and influences between mind wandering, mindfulness, academic emotions, and the achievement of university students, and to verify it as empirical, and identify the differences between male and female students in the three research variables. The main research sample consisted of (277) students (145 males, 132 females), randomly selected from the College of Education, King Khalid University, their mean age was (21.2) with a standard deviation (1.44), the measures of mind wandering, mindfulness, and academic emotions were applied to them. The empirical data supported the validity of the proposed structural model for the relationships, direct and indirect effects between mind wandering, mindfulness, academic emotions, and achievement among university students. The results showed: high level of mental wandering among the sample members, statistically significant differences in mind wandering according to gender in favor of females, statistically significant differences mindfulness according to gender in favor of females, statistically significant differences according to gender in positive emotions in favor of females, while Gender differences were found in negative emotions in favor of males.                                                                                                                     

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المجلة التربوية لکلية التربية بسوهاج
Volume 84, Issue 84 - Serial Number 84
مناهج وطرق التدریس ( اللغة العربیة- الإنجلیزیة – الفرنسیة – الریاضیات – العلوم- الفنون- الاقتصاد المنزلی- التجاری ... )
April 2021
Pages 611-667

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  • Receive Date: 21 October 2020
  • Revise Date: 03 November 2020
  • Accept Date: 11 November 2020

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