Abstract

This study examines the sequential mediating effects of learning flow and satisfaction in the relationship between college students’ core competencies and college adjustment. Data was collected through an online survey of college students attending Y University in Seoul in the second semester of 2021. Incomplete and otherwise unacceptable response sets were excluded such that responses from 275 students (85 male, 30.9%; 189 female, 68.7%; 1 prefer not to respond, 0.4%) were included in the final analysis. The results showed that learning flow and learning satisfaction sequentially mediated the relationship between core competencies and college adjustment, that learning flow was not correlated with college adjustment, and that learning flow did not mediate the relationship between core competencies and college adjustment. These results provide new insights into the importance of core competencies and the mechanisms between learning flow and learning satisfaction in the remote learning environments, which have important practical implications for developing the interventions to help college students adapt to college life.