التدين كمتغير معدل للعلاقة بين جودة الحياة النفسية و التطرف الأيديولوجي لدي عينة من طلاب الجامعة السعوديين

Abstract EN

The study aimed to investigate the role of religiosity as a moderator of the relationship between psychological quality of life and ideological extremism among a sample of Saudi university students, and gender and specialization differences in religiosity, psychological quality of life and ideological extremism.

A random sample of 906 students with an age range between 18-39 years (M = 22.4; SD = 4.23) was recruited.

Three measures were administered; the Ryff scale of psychological wellbeing translated by El Keshky (under publication), the scale of religiosity (Abdel-Khalek, 2016), and the ideological extremism scale (prepared by the authors).

The results of the study indicated that the students had a high level of religiosity and psychological wellbeing, and a low level of ideological extremism.

Significant positive correlations were found between ideological extremism and religiosity, between psychological wellbeing and religiosity, and a negative correlation between psychological wellbeing and ideological extremism was also found.

There was a negative impact of religiosity on the relationship between psychological wellbeing and ideological extremism.

Statistically significant differences were found in both psychological wellbeing and religiosity according to gender, where females had higher scores, but there were no gender differences in ideological extremism.

There were statistically significant differences in both religiosity and ideological extremism according to specialization in favor of students of theoretical disciplines, but no statistically significant differences in psychological wellbeing according to specialization were revealed.

The study recommends strengthening the role of religiosity through advocacy interventions to improve psychological wellbeing, reduce and eradicate extremism, and conducting more research through university research centers to accurately investigate the risk and protecting factors of ideological extremism.