Academic Passion and its Relationship with Psychological Resilience among Students at Yarmouk University
Abstract
The present study aimed to identify the level of academic passion and psychological resilience among students at Yarmouk University, and to examine the nature of the relationship between academic passion and psychological resilience according to the variable of gender. The study was conducted on a sample of (600) male and female undergraduate students selected through convenience sampling. The study adopted the descriptive correlational approach. The researcher used the Academic Passion Scale (Arabic-adapted version) and the Psychological Resilience Scale developed by AL-Khawaldeh (2022). The results indicated that the level of academic passion, with its two dimensions, was moderate, whereas the overall level of psychological resilience was high. All dimensions of psychological resilience were also found to be high. The findings further revealed a statistically significant difference in harmonious passion in favor of males. However, no statistically significant differences were found in obsessive passion or psychological resilience attributable to gender. The results also showed a positive statistically significant correlation between harmonious passion and psychological resilience. In light of these findings, the study proposed several recommendations.
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