Modeling causal relationships between Mindfulness and both: ‎subjective vitality and academic Grit among Higher Education ‎students at the Faculty of Education, Kafr El-Sheikh University

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Department of Educational Psychology, Faculty of Education, Kafrelsheikh University

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The research aimed to identify the structural model of causal relationships between Mindfulness, subjective vitality and academic Grit among Higher Education students at the Faculty of Education, Kafr El-Sheikh University, as well as to reveal the impact of gender (males and females) and academic specialization (psychology, mental health, comparative education, curricula and teaching methods, pedagogy, kindergartens) and the academic band (general diploma, professional diploma, special diploma, master's, doctorate) and their interactions on Mindfulness, subjective vitality and academic Grit among Higher Education students at the Faculty of Education, Kafr El-Sheikh University, and the basic research sample consisted of (910) male and female Higher Education students at the Faculty of Education, Kafr El-Sheikh University, and their ages ranged between (23-45) years, with an average age of (25.75) years, and a standard deviation of (±3,972), by (127) males, and (783) females, and the research tools included: Mindfulness Scale Prepared by / researcher, subjective vitality scale prepared by / researcher, and academic Grit scale Prepared by / Jaljal and Hindawi (2023), the research relied on the descriptive approach, and using the correlation coefficient, binary variance analysis and multiple regression analysis And the method of course analysis, the results found the existence of a causal model that shows the relationships of influence and influence of the existing paths between Mindfulness as a future variable and subjective vitality as an intermediate variable and academic Grit as a dependent variable among Higher Education students at the Faculty of Education, and the results also showed a statistically significant correlation between the scores of the research sample members on the Mindfulness scale and their scores on the academic Grit scale, and the existence of a statistically significant correlation between the scores of the research sample members on the subjective vitality scale and their scores on the scale Academic Grit, and the existence of a statistically significant correlation between the scores of the research sample members on the subjective vitality scale and their scores on the academic Grit scale, and the existence of a statistically significant correlation between the scores of the research sample members on the Mindfulness scale and their scores on the subjective vitality scale, and the absence of a statistically significant effect of the interaction between gender (males and females) and academic specialization (psychology, mental health, comparative education, curricula and teaching methods, pedagogy, kindergarten) and the academic band (general diploma, professional diploma, special diploma, master's, doctorate) In the degrees of Mindfulness, subjective vitality and academic Grit among graduate students, it is also possible to predict the academic Grit of Higher Education students through the dimensions of Mindfulness and subjective vitality, and in light of the results of the research, some educational recommendations and research proposals were presented.

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