الشائعات الكاذبة وعلاقتها بأمن المجتمع من وجهة نظر طالبات جامعة الأمير سطام بن عبد العزيز

Abstract EN

the research aims to identify the level of false rumors spread in society, the level of feeling of community security and the nature of the correlation between them from the perspective of prince Sattam Bin Abdulaziz university female students.

the sample consisted of (379) female students.

the researcher used a 40-item questionnaire to measure the level of false rumors and a 37-item questionnaire to measure the level of community security.

reliability and validity were tested.

the results indicated average level of false rumors spread.

their dimensions were in the following order: social, academic, economic, political, and religious.

the level of community security was high the dimensions were in the following order: political, psychological, intellectual, and economic.

results also indicated very strong negative correlation between economic rumors and economic security, correlations between religious rumors and psychological, intellectual and political security, a correlation between political rumors and psychological, intellectual and economic security.

results also showed strong negative correlations between political and economic false rumors and political and economic security, a relationship between false religious rumors and community security in general according to (Hopkins Standard, 2002).