Rusul Ghazi Faisal Prof. SihaamKadhmNamir, Ph.D
Abstract
The study aimed to identify the academic buoyancy of graduate students and the significance of the differences in academic
buoyancy among graduate students according to the variables (gender/specialization/stage). The research sample consisted
of graduate students at the University of Baghdad of both genders (males, females) and specialization (Scientific, human)
and for the stage (Master’s and PhD) for the academic year (2020-2021), with (690) students, and to achieve the objectives
of the current research, the researcher adopted the academic buoyancy scale (Saleem, 2018). The research reached the
following results:
Postgraduate students have high academic buoyancy (higher than the hypothetical average). And the significance of the
differences in academic buoyancy among graduate students according to the variables of gender and specialization is not
statistically significant, and for the academic stage it is statistically significant, and it is in favor of the master.
As for the interaction between the variables: gender and specialization, gender and study stage, the interaction between
specialization and study stage, and the interaction between gender, specialization and study stage, the differences are not
statistically significant. In light of the results, the research reached recommendations and suggestions, including:
Recommendations to the Ministry of Higher Education to prepare indicative training programs to train students on the
dimensions of academic buoyancy, which the study touched upon such as (planning, perseverance, control, self-efficacy,
low anxiety). As for the suggestions, conducting a study is used to find the relationship between Academic buoyancy and
future thinking among graduate students.