The Role of Psychological Hardness and Academic Ambition in Predicting the Decision-Making Ability of Tenth-Grade Students in Azraq Camp Schools

Abstract

This study aimed to determine the relative contribution of each of psychological hardness and academic ambition in predicting the level of decision-making ability of tenth grade students in Azraq camp schools for Syrian refugees in Jordan; Further, it aimed at identifying the level of the three variables among the members of the study sample and verifying whether there were statistically significant differences in the levels of those variables due to gender. The study sample consisted of (400) students from the tenth-grade students in the schools of Azraq camp for Syrian refugees for the first semester of the academic year (2022/2023), and they were chosen according to the Cluster random Sampling. To achieve the objectives of the study, the measure of decision-making ability used in the study of Shaaban (2007), the measure of psychological hardness used in the study of Al-Saadi (2019), and the measure of academic ambition used in the study of Al-Jabouri (2018) were all used after confirming their psychometric properties. The results of the current study indicated that the members of the study sample enjoyed an average level of decision-making ability and academic ambition, and they enjoyed a high level of psychological hardness. The study showed that there are no statically significant differences attributed to gender. The results also showed that the independent variables (psychological hardness, academic ambition) predicted the dependent variable (the ability to make decisions), and it was a statistically significant predictor at the significance level (α = 0.05) with a joint effect of the independent variables, explaining its value (68.90%); where psychological hardness contributed with a relative effect to the ability to make decisions, explaining (65.20%) of the total explanatory variance of the predictive model, while academic ambition contributed to the ability to make decisions with a relative effect, explaining (0.037%) of the total explanatory variance of the model. Predictive.