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المجلة العربية للقياس والتقويم
المجلة العربية للقياس والتقويم
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Student mental health, wellbeing and flourishing are becoming increasingly essential in the evolving landscape of higher education, given their central role in supporting academic adjustment and personal development. This study aims to identify the levels of psychological wellbeing, psychological needs and positive mental health among university students and to examine the nature of the relationship between psychological wellbeing, their unmet psychological needs and positive mental health, furthermore, investigate the extent to which psychological needs and positive mental health contribute to predicting psychological well-being among university students. The study sample consisted of 1,373 male and female students from the Faculty of Education at Zagazig University, aged between 18 and 23 years, with a mean age of 20.6 years and a standard deviation of (SD = 3.44). The study instruments included the Psychological Flourishing Scale (Keyes, 2002), measure of unmet psychological needs (Hoque & Uzzaman, 2023), and Positive Mental Health Scale (ukat et al. 2016).Results revealed that approximately one-third of the sample (28.8%) demonstrated a high level of psychological flourishing, while the largest proportion of students (48%) exhibited a moderate level of flourishing. In contrast, 18.2% showed low levels of psychological well-being. The findings revealed significant positive relationship between the psychological wellbeing and positive mental health, as it can be predicting the psychological wellbeing from the positive mental health among university students. In light of the theoretical framework, previous studies, and the current findings, several recommendations and suggestions for future research were proposed.
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