The Mediating Effects of Basic psychological needs on Relationship between Positive Psychological Capital and Learning Flow of Online Extra-Curricular Program Participants’s in College

The purpose of this article is to investigate the mediating effect of basic psychological needs on the relationship between positive psychological capital and learning flow of online extra-curricular program participants. To this end, a survey was conducted on 561 participants of the A online extra-curricular program in I University. For doing so, this article used a instrument of the Psychological Capital Questionnaire (PCQ) by Luthans et al.(2006), the Basic Psychological Needs Scale (Kim & Lee, 2008) and the Learning flow Measurement(Kim, 2003). A total of 207 copies were returned(return rate: 36.9%), and all responses were used as valid data(100.0%). The collected data were analyzed through descriptive statistics, confirmatory factor analysis, reliability, correlation, and mediation analysis. The results of this article were the following: First, research variables were found to be positively related. Second, basic psychological needs has mediating effects between positive psychological capital and learning flow. Based on the results, the theoretical implications of the relationship between research variables and practical implications for enhancing learning effectiveness of online extra-curricular program participants’s in college were suggested.