Scientific deception and self-confidence as predictors of academic achievement for outstanding students at the Faculty of Education, Assiut University

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Instructor of educational psychology Department of Educational Psychology - Faculty of Education - Assiut University

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    The current research aimed to predict the academic achievement of  Superior students in the faculty of education through the variables of self-confidence and Imposter Phenomenon. The research sample consisted of 300 male and female students of the faculty of education distributed as follows: A survey sample consisting of 210 male and female students nd90 male and female students a basic sample, the mean of their ages was 21.56 year and standarad deviation was 0.88,  The results indicated that there were statistically significant differences between the mean scores of males and females of the research sample in favor of females in both self -confidence and academic achievement and in favor of males in  Imposter Phenomenon. The results also showed a negative correlation between the mean scores of  the study sample in both dimensions (lack of scientific courage and fear of the future, fear of lack of capacity and knowledge, doubt about the future success, lack of credibility of success and excellence, measure of  imposter phenomenon) and self-confidence and academic achievement of students, at the level of 0.01,  The results also showed a positive correlation between the mean scores of the study sample in both dimensions and measure of self-confidence and academic achievement of students at the level of 0.01, while the coefficient of  determining the variables between the research variables was 0.867 , that percent for self and imposter phenomenon in academic achievement, and therefore can be used both measures of self-confidence and imposter phenomenon as predictors of academic achievement of superior university

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