THE EXTREME RESPONSES AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Abstract

There is no doubt that individuals differ in their responses to different life changes, as some of them are not strong enough to face those changes, which led them to feel psychological conflicts that led them to revolt at times and to extremism at other times, and all this is followed by psychologicalstress factors, and such people suffer psychological and social crisesthat contributed to the formation of types of abnormal behavior, and these abnormal behaviors include inadequate dialogue, weakness and stiffness in attitudes , which are manifested by extremism and distancing from compatibility . Accordingly, this research came to measure the extremist responses of university students, on a sample of (400) students selected in a random and equal manner, and to measure this variable, a measure was prepared according to the integrative approach consisting in its final form of(22) items that are answered according to a five-way answer gradation (Likert method) and after extracting the indicators of validity and reliability for this measure using the appropriate statistical means; The results of the research indicated that university students do not qualify as an extremist response, and that there is a statistically significant difference in the response according to the gender variable (males, females) and in favor of males, with the presence of such a difference according to the specialization variable (scientific, humanitarian) and in favor of the scientific specialization, and the research concluded with some recommendations and proposals