The Predictive Capacity of Academic Life Quality in Academic Identity Among Female Students at Umm Al-Qura University

Abstract

The study aimed to determine the levels of the quality of academic life factors (quality of professors, quality of courses, quality of university services, and quality of classmates). The study also aimed to examine the role of the quality of academic life in predicting students' academic identity. The study also sought to test the differences in academic identity based on students' majors, levels, mother's and father's education levels. The researcher used the Quality of Academic Life Scale developed by the researcher and the Academic Identity Scale (Al-Zubaidi, 2019) among (563) female students. Results found that the level of the quality of academic life was high. Students reported the quality of professors as the highest responses, followed by the quality of courses, then the quality of classmates, and finally the quality of university services. The results also found that all the quality of academic life factors had an impact on students' academic identity except the quality of university services. Finally, The results indicated no statistically significant differences in academic identity attributed to students' academic level, major, and mother's education level. However, there were statistically significant differences in academic identity attributed to the father's education level.