The Predictive Ability of Self-efficacy of Academic ‎Passion among Yarmouk University Students

Abstract

This study aimed at investigating the predictability of self-efficacy of academic passion, as well as at investigating the most popular academic passion. The study’s sample consisted of (1044) undergraduate students at Yarmouk University during the summer semester of the academic year 2019\ 2020. Two measures were used: one for academic passion and the other for academic self-efficacy. The results showed that the most popular passion is the harmonious passion pattern. There were statistically significant differences in harmonious passion pattern levels due to gender, in favor of female students, and there were statistically significant differences in obsessive passion pattern levels due to specialization, in favor of humanities. The analysis of the stepwise regression revealed that academic self-efficacy explained (25.6%) of the variance in harmonious passion and explained (22.4%) obsessive passion with Stabilizing the effects of other variables