Psychological Security and its Relationship to the Academic Performance among University Students

This study aims to identify the psychological security of university female students, the statistically significant differences in psychological security according to stage variable (third and fourth stage), the academic performance of university female students, the statistically significant differences in academic performance according to stage variable (third and fourth stage), and the statistically significant relationship between psychological security and academic performance of the university female students. To achieve the research objectives, the Shuqair (2005) psychological security scale was adopted, and the researcher prepared the academic performance scale according to several related educational scales and previous studies. The Instruments have been administered to a sample of (400) female students of the University of Baghdad from the two stages, third and fourth, (200) third, and (200) fourth stage, for the academic year 2024-2025. The results show that female University students have psychological security, there are no statistically significant differences in psychological security according to stage variable, female University students have academic performance, there are no statistically significant differences in academic performance according to stage variable, there is a correlation between psychological security and academic performance among university students. Accordingly, several recommendations and suggestions have been put forward.