Psychological Capital as a moderator Variable for the Relationship between Academic Resilience and Personal Meaning among Postgraduate Students

This research aimed at investigating the role of psychological capital as a moderator variable in the relationship between academic resilience and personal meaning among postgraduate students. It also aimed at identifying the significance of differences between high and low academic resilience students in psychological capital, as well as the differences in research variables according to gender and work, The sample consisted of 302 postgraduate students from Minya University. The researchers translated and prepared psychological capital scale, academic resilience scale, and personal meaning scale and used descriptive method. The results showed that psychological capital could modify the relationship between academic resilience and personal meaning, and there were statistically significant differences between high and low academic resilience students at the level of 0.01 in psychological capital in favor of high academic resilience. The results also showed that there were significant differences between male and female students in certain dimensions of personal meaning , academic resilience, and psychological capital. There were also statistically significant differences between working and non-working postgraduate students in certain dimensions of personal meaning scale and psychological capita scale, while there were no statistically significant differences on the academic resilience scale. The researchers recommended the need for programs to develop and enhance psychological capital and academic resilience because of their role in promoting personal meaning.