الفروق في نوعية الحياة و بعض المتغيرات المرتبطة بها بين طلبة الجامعة و الأفراد في منتصف العمر بدولة الكويت

الملخص EN

The current study aims to identify the differences in quality of life, self-esteem, life orientation and religiosity among young university students and middle-aged individuals, the interaction of age and sex on these variables, and the contribution of self-esteem, life orientation and religiosity to predicting the quality of life in both groups.

The study sample consisted of (500) Kuwaiti individuals of both sexes, divided into two groups : the group of university students average age of (20.44) years, and the average age of middle-aged individuals (39.14) years.

Four tests were applied, vis.

life quality scale, Kuwait university scale of religiosity, Rosenberg’s self-assessment Scale, life orientation scale.

Results showed statistically significant differences in perceiving the quality of life between university students and middle-aged individuals, especially the psychological quality of life in favor of middle-aged individuals.

Moreover, self-esteem and religiosity of middle-aged individuals prove to be higher than that of university students.

Life orientation among university students is higher than that of middle-aged individuals, and there is no significant variance on quality of life, self-esteem, religiosity and life orientation but there is a significant variance for interaction between age and sex in both self-esteem and life orientation and religiosity.

Results, also, indicated that the level of self-esteem and life orientation highly contributed to predicting the quality of life among the university students, while self-esteem and life orientation and religiosity contributed significantly to predicting the quality of life of middle-aged individuals.