مفهوم الذات وعلاقته بالصحة النفسية لدى طلبة جامعة القدس
Date
2011-06-23
Authors
اسماء حمدي عبد شرباتي
Asma Hamdi Abd Sharabati
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AL-Quds University
جامعة القدس
جامعة القدس
Abstract
This study aimd at identifying the level of self-concept, and the level of mental health
among the BA students of Alquds University , and to examine the relationship between
these two factors, It also aimed to identify the impact of some variables like: gender,
college, place of residence, school year, the family's monthly income, level of education of
the mother, level of education of the Father, the order of the individual in the family,
health status, level of life stressors, access to courses related to self development ,
relationship with colleagues, and the relationship with the professors, on each of these two
factors, self-concept and mental health, among students of Alquds University .
The study population consisted of all BA undergraduate students at Alquds University, for
the second semester of the academic year 2009/2010,with the total number of (10057)
students, distributed to twelve faculties, while the study sample consisted of (300) students,
equivalent to about (2.9%) of the study population , who were selected in a random sample
of four colleges: the College of Health Professions, Faculty of Da'wa and Fundamentals of
Religion, the Faculty of Engineering, and the Faculty of Law. The number of individuals
who returned back the questionnaires were only (294) students.
To achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher used two measures: first: Tennessee
measure (Tennessee) for self-concept, and the second: Testing the brief list of mental state
(Brief Symptom Checklist), which has been verified and proved in advance.
Data has been treated and calculated by using different ways like, the statistical software
packages for Social Sciences (SPSS). Averages, percentages, standard deviations, (T test)
for the two samples, test analysis of variance (One way anova), and Pearson correlation
coefficient (Pearson correlation) and the regression coefficient (Analysis Regression) .
Results showed a positive relationship function between each of the self-concept, and
mental health dimensions. Mental health level of students has been clearly shown.
Psychological symptoms level was low at the largest proportion of respondents, it was,
(49%), while the level of symptoms was in the middle with average of (35 %) from the
respondents, but high with (16%) of the individuals of this sample.
We can figure out the symptoms of obsessive-compulsive disorder, followed by hostility
as being the most common symptoms among university students. When it comes to thelevel of self-concept, the findings of this study suggest that self-concept was positive
among the largest percentage of students; it reached to 53%, while it is negative for 47% of
the respondents.
As for the impact of variables on each of self-concept and mental health, the results of this
study showed the existence of significant statistical differences in mental health levels
represented by the Global Severity Index( GSI) depending on the gender variable in favor
of females , in other words, females suffer from psychological symptoms more than maleswhile there were no significant statistical differences in the levels of self-concept
depending on the gender variables on the overall degree of self-concept, differences were
functioning as social and moral dimensions of the self-concept in favor of females.
while on the other variables of the study, it pointed to the existence of differences
statistically significant in the levels of mental health according to the variable of the
stressors levels, in favor of people with too many stressors, while there were no statistically
significant differences in the levels of mental health due to the variables of college,
academic year and the level of family income. The study also noted the existence of
differences statistically significant in the levels of self-concept (within the total self
concept) depending on the variable of income level, while there were no differences
according to the college, the academic year, and life stressors level.
Variables of this study such as: gender, level of stressors, relationship with colleagues and
the health status have predicted the mental health of students , while the relationship with
colleagues variable has predicted the self concept.
In light of these findings the researcher made several recommendations, including the
need that the University administration and working staff should improve the mental
health conditions, and improve students perception of themselves , and seek to reduce the
level of psychological symptoms and specify symptoms of anxiety and aggressiveness
among them, by maintaining and developing psychological counseling services, and
through the provision of a relaxed atmosphere to study, and reduce the triggers stimulating
the atmosphere of tension and violence among students, researchers should do further
studies, particularly qualitative studies to identify more deeply the mental health situation
and self-concept for university students.
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الصحة النفسية المجتمعية , Community Mental Health