الاغتراب النفسي و علاقته بتقدير الذات لدى طلبة جامعتي القدس و القدس المفتوحة في فلسطين

Abstract EN

The study aimed to identify the levels of psychological alienation and self-esteem among students at Al-Quds and Al-Quds Open Universities in Palestine.

It also aimed to identify the effect of some demographic variables such as (gender, study level, academic achievement, place of residence and the university education system) of these two factors.

In addition, it aimed to examine the relationship between the psychological alienation and the self-esteem.

The study sample consisted of (950) university students (5 % (of the original population), of which (581) were from Al-Quds University and (360) were from Al-Quds Open University, during the academic year 2012 / 2013.

It was selected by stratified random sampling according to gender and university.

The results showed that the overall degree of psychological alienation among the students of the two Universities was moderate, as the average percentage of their responses reached (52.6 %), and so the degree for selfesteem, as the value of the average ratios was (69.6 %).

Moreover, there was an adverse correlation coefficient, which was statistically significant at the level of (α ≤ 0.05) between the scores of the psychological alienation and the scores of self-esteem.

The Pearson’s correlation coefficient between them was (-0.54), i.e.

when the degree of alienation gets higher, the degree of self-esteem gets lower and vice versa.

The results also indicated that there were no significant differences in the averages of both the psychological alienation and self-esteem among the students of At Al-Quds and Al-Quds Open Universities in Palestine in terms of the academic level and place of residence.

The differences in the variable of gender were significant in the averages of the psychological alienation in favor of male; the differences in the averages of the self-esteem were in favor of female.

The differences in the academic achievement were significant in the psychological alienation in favor of “good” and “excellent”, while the differences in the self-esteem were also significant in terms of academic achievement in favor of “good” and “very good”.