أثر المتغيرات الاجتماعية و الاقتصادية على اتجاهات طلبة الجامعات الأردنية الرسمية حيال التوجهات السياسية للرئيس الأمريكي باراك أوباما : دراسة ميدانية

الملخص EN

This study aimes to identify the attitudes of public Jordanian universities' students towards political orientations of President Barack Obama.

It also shows their attitudes toward the character of President Barack Obama, his role in achieving peace in the Middle East and the world, his role in spreading democracy and promoting respect for human rights In the Middle East and the world, his role in reducing hostility and removing hatred between the Muslim world and the United States, and attitudes towards his vision for the renewal of the United States and its leadership in the next phase.

It also aims to identify the influence of those attitudes by factors of sex, place of residence, level of monthly family income, nationality, fathees profession and his educational level, the mothers educational level, area of study, level of study, and level of English language proficiency, membership in the institutions of civil society: political parties, associations, clubs, etc., religion, the scope of practice of religious rites, and visit to the United States of America.

The study highlights priorities for the area that should be given attention at the present time among six issues: to resist extremism and terrorism, to achieve peace, economic development, women's empower-ment, democratization, prevention of nuclear proliferation, as viewed by public Jordanian universities' students.

To achieve this, a questionnaire was designed and distributed to a sample of students at public Jordanian universities, numbered (1330) students, which formed a rate of 1% of the population of the study, the data have been treated by known statistical methods, after analyzing the data the results of the study had shown that the general attitude of public Jordanian universities' students about the political orientations of U.S.

President Barack Obama in general tends to be above average.

The results show that the most important factors that influenced attitudes of students towards political orientations of U.S.

President Barack Obama are: place of residence, level of the monthly family income, fathers profession and educational level, mother's educational level, area of study, proficiency in English language, religion, and visiting the United States of America.

The study does not show any statistically significant effects attributed to the variables of sex, membership in the institutions of civil society, citizenship, and scope of practice of religious rites.

The findings ofthe study regarding the order of priorities in the region, from the point of view of the study sample, point out that achievement of peace in the region is the first priority for the university students (49.8%), followed by resistance to extremism and terrorism (15.4%), economic development (12.8%), preventing nuclear prolifera-tion (8%), spread of democracy (7.1%), and finally the empowerment of women (4%).