The Relationship between Basic Psychological Needs and Academic Engagement through Academic Buoyancy

The current study investigated the direct and indirect relation parental styles in psychological needs and academic buoyancy through academic engagement. The study sample consisted of (768) Arab university students inside the Green Line, who were chosen by the available method. To achieve the objectives of the study, the study adopted the descriptive methodology, in both its correlational and analytical parts, by employing the method of path analysis, and used the following measures: basic psychological needs, academic engagement, and academic buoyancy. Adopting the default causal model after taking into account the modification indicators. The results showed that there was a direct effect of the basic psychological needs (independence) on academic buoyancy.and direct relationship between need for competence and emotional engagement. There were three direct relationships between academic buoyancy and the academic engagement, and two direct positive relationships between psychological needs (independence and competence) and academic buoyancy.