Alienation Among Al-Quds Open University Students
Year: 2005
Type: preprint
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The present study aimed at identifying the level of alienation among QOU students and also aimed to identifying the effects of some variables in the level of alienation. The present study addressed the issues of alienation as a multi-dimensional phenomena, which theoretical and empirical research has dealt with. Accordingly, alienation is procedurally defined by three dimensions which are: the feeling of anomie, the feeling of social isolation and the feeling of meaninglessness. To answer the study's questions and its hypotheses, the researchers developed questionnaire to measure the extent of the alienation's among QOU students. The questionnaire was administered on a sample of (1749) students, that were chosen by the stratified random sample. The size of the sample used was (10%) of the whole QOU population.After collecting the data, it was analyzed by using the statistical package for social science (SPSS). The study revealed the following results: there were a moderate feeling of alienation among the students. The study indicated that there were a different dimension of alienation whereby the meaninglessness represents the dimension which causes the most suffering among the students. Also, the study found that there are significant differences in the degree of alienation's existence among QOU students related to: marital status, academic level, the academic program, the relation to work-power, age, and the grade point average.
Source: SSRN Electronic Journal
Language: English
Topic: Student Stress and Coping
Subfield: Developmental and Educational Psychology
Field: Psychology
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2271471316