The Effect of the Quality of the University Climate, Academic Self-efficacy, Emotional Intelligence, and Clarity of the Intended Learning Outcomes on Students' Self-directed Learning

Document Type : Original Article

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educational Psychology, Faculty of Education, Minia University

Abstract

This research investigates the effect of the perceived quality of university climate, academic self-efficacy, emotional intelligence, and clarity of intended learning outcomes, and their impact on self-directed learning. The perceived quality of the university climate scale, the academic self-efficacy scale, the emotional intelligence scale, the clarity of intended learning outcomes scale, and the self-directed learning scale were applied to a sample of (935) male and female students. Results revealed that there were direct correlative relationships between the current research variables. Besides, results demonstrated that there were direct and indirect positive effects of the perceived quality of university climate and the academic self-efficacy (as independent variables), emotional intelligence, clarity of learning outcomes (as mediator variables), and self-directed learning (as dependent variable). In addition, the path analysis model achieved goodness of fit indices. Gender was also a moderate variable for the effects of academic self-efficacy on emotional intelligence and clarity of learning outcomes on the self-directed learning but was not a moderate variable for the rest paths. Finally, the male model achieved more fitness than the female model.

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