Psychological Capital and Academic Adjustment as Predictors of Quality of Life for Students with Disabilities at University

Abstract

The current study aimed to identify the extent to which psychological capital and Academic Adjustment as contribute to predicting the quality of life of students with disabilities at the university, the sample consisted of (256) male and female students with disabilities at Taibah University, the tools included a scale of quality of life, a scale of psychological capital, and a scale of Academic Adjustment for students with disabilities at the university, prepared by the researcher. The results showed that there were statistically significant differences between groups in each of the sexes in favor of females and the type of disability in favor of the Blind on both quality of life, psychological capital and academic adjustment from the point of view of students with disabilities at the university. And there is a positive, statistically significant correlation between the total score and the sub-dimensions of the quality of life scale, the total score and the sub-dimensions of the psychological capital scale, as well as the total score and sub-dimensions of the academic adjustment scale. It is also possible to predict the level of quality of life for students with disabilities at the university from the dimensions of psychological capital and dimensions of academic adjustment, it was also possible to derive a structural model of the relationships between the quality of life of students with disabilities at the university and each of: psychological capital and academic adjustment.