Sameera Moharib Al-Otaibi, Mariam Hameed Ahmed Allahyani
Professor of Educational Psychology
Professor of Personality and Social Psychology,Umm Al-Qura University, Makka, Saudi Arabia
Volume: 17 | Issue: 2 | Pages: 138-153 | June 2025-| https://doi.org/10.54940/ep93641819-|-PDF
Received:-21/05/2025-|-Received:-26/05/2025-|-Accepted:-16/06/2025
Corresponding Author: [email protected]
Abstract
The study aimed to determine the relationship between cognitive flexibility, academic self-efficacy, and self-regulated learning strategies. This was achieved by using academic self-efficacy as an intervening variable between cognitive flexibility and self-regulated learning strategies among university students (males and females), as illustrated by the proposed model built on the theoretical foundations addressed in the literature and previous studies related to the three variables. The validity of this model was verified by statistically isolating the academic self-efficacy variable in the relationship between the dimensions of cognitive flexibility and self-regulated learning strategies among Umm Al-Qura University students. The descriptive and comparative causal approach was used through path analysis and hierarchical regression analysis. A stratified random sample was used, which amounted to 570 male and female students at Umm Al-Qura University, with 256 males (44.9%) and 314 females (55.1%). The academic self-efficacy scale, the cognitive flexibility scale, and the self-regulated learning strategies scale were applied to them. The results revealed a modified model for the relationship between cognitive flexibility variables, academic self-efficacy as a mediating variable, and self-regulated learning strategies for both male and female students. Statistical isolation also confirmed that academic self-efficacy plays an important role in the relationship between cognitive flexibility and self-regulated learning strategies
Keywords
Path analysis, academic self-efficacy, cognitive flexibility, self-regulated learning, university students.
How to Cite
Al-Otaibi, S. & Allahyani, M. (2025). Academic Self-Efficacy as a Mediating Variable Between Cognitive Flexibility and Self-Regulated Learning Strategies among University Students. Journal of Umm Al-Qura University for Educational and Psychological Sciences, Vol17(2), pp138-153. https://doi.org/10.54940/ep93641819
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