Irrational thoughts and their relationship to psychological alienation among Tobruk University students

Abstract

The current study aims to find out the relationship between irrational ideas and their relationship to alienation as well as to identify the differences attributed to the variables of gender (males / females) and academic specialization (scientific / literary) in irrational ideas and psychological alienation and the study sample consisted of 170 male and female students from the Faculty of Education, University of Tobruk have been selected in a stratified random way The researcher used the following tools:

1. Rihani scale 1985 for rational and irrational ideas.
2. Zeinab Choucair Scale 2002 for psychological alienation.

The results of the study found the following:

1. Irrational thoughts and psychological alienation are prevalent among university students.
2. There is a statistically significant correlation at the level of 0.05 between irrational thoughts and psychological alienation according to the study variables.
3. There were no statistically significant differences in irrational thoughts attributable to the gender variable (male/female).
4. There are statistically significant differences in psychological alienation in favor of males at a significance level of 0.05.
5. There were no statistically significant differences according to the specialization variable (scientific / literary) in irrational ideas at the level of 0.05.
6. There were no statistically significant differences according to the specialization variable (scientific / literary) in psychological alienation at the level of significance 0.05.