Investigating the Relationship between Life Satisfaction and Academic Self-Efficacy on College Students’ Organizational Identification

Abstract

This article explores the relationship between life satisfaction, academic self-efficacy, and organizational identification through a full structural equation model. The data was collected from 255 participants enrolled in different colleges within two universities via the scales of Life Satisfaction, Academic Self-Efficacy, and Organizational Identification. The results show that life satisfaction has direct significant effects on academic self-efficacy and organizational identification. In addition, the study also revealed that there is a significant indirect effect from life satisfaction to organizational identification via academic self-efficacy.

Keywords

• academic self-efficacy,college students,higher education,life satisfaction,organizational identification,structural equation modeling

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