The feeling of loneliness and its relationship to compatibility with university life among a sample of students of the College of Arts and Sciences. meadow

Abstract

The problem of the current study was to answer the following question: What is the nature of the relationship between the feeling of loneliness and compatibility with university life in the research sample. The research sample included students of the Department of Psychology in the College of Arts and Sciences / Al-Marj during the academic year 2019-2020 AD, and the sample size reached 63 male and female students The study aimed to: Identify the level of psychological loneliness and the level of dimensions of compatibility with university life in the research sample. It also aimed to identify differences related to gender and age. The researchers used to collect their data the loneliness scale of Ibrahim Qashqoush, and the compatibility scale with university life for Ali Abd al-Salam, and the two researchers adopted the correlational approach to achieve the goals of the study and the data were analyzed using the spas program, and the study reached the following results: The study sample individuals do not suffer from loneliness. This is when comparing the theoretical average of the scale with the average of the sample for the same scale, as the average of the sample is lower than the average of the scale, and the study found that there are statistically significant differences at the level of significance (0.05), where the average of the sample increased from the theoretical average in each dimension of compatibility with university life. And since the goal is to identify the level of the dimensions of compatibility, we find academic compatibility in the first order, followed by commitment to achieving goals, then personal-emotional compatibility and finally social compatibility. The results also did not show any differences related to gender in the level of loneliness, even if the average of females was slightly more than average Males, but without the level of significance, and the study showed that there are differences related to gender in only two dimensions of compatibility with university life, namely: Except for academic compatibility in favor of females and after social compatibility in favor of males, as for age differences (new students) and (graduate students), graduate students showed a higher level of loneliness compared to new students at the level of significance (0.0001).