الشخصية المفجوعة وعلاقتها بالدوجماتية الدينية لدى طلبة الجامعة

Distressed Personality and its Relation to Religious Dogmatism among University Students

Abstract

One of the most important features that characterizes a dogmatic person is his adherence to his opinion and his definitiveness, and his absolute belief in the sincerity of his thoughts and beliefs, and that everything he believes in is suitable for every age. His personality also tends to impose opinion and control over others, and for this he may use physical and verbal violence, and he also shows constant anxiety, doubt in others, frustration in achieving goals and desires, and fear of the future, and his personality is characterized by low self-esteem, introversion, and withdrawal. On interaction and social responsibilities, which are among the main characteristics of the bereavement personality style.

Therefore, the current research aimed to identify:
1- The grieving personality of the students of Karbala University.
2- Religious dogmatism among the students of Karbala University.
3- The correlative relationship between the grieving personality and religious dogmatism among the students of Karbala University.
4- The difference in the relationship between the grieving personality and religious dogmatism according to the gender variable (male – female) and specialization (scientific – human).

To achieve the objectives of the research, the researcher built a scale for the distressed personality, consisting in its initial form of (26) paragraphs with five alternatives. After the procedures for verifying the apparent honesty and validity of the paragraphs by presenting them to (20) arbitrators specialized in educational and psychological sciences and mental health, only (20) paragraphs were left.

As for religious dogmatism, the researcher built a scale consisting of (24) items of five alternatives in its initial form, and after presenting it to the arbitrators above, only (21) items were left.

For the purpose of extracting the psychometric properties of the two scales, the researcher applied them to (210) male and female students. After completing the application, the researcher extracted the validity indicators in three ways:

1- Internal consistency.
2- Discriminatory power (the two extreme groups).
3- Factor analysis.

One paragraph of the grieved personality scale was deleted so that it finally consisted of (19) five-alternative items, and one paragraph was deleted from the religious dogmatism scale, so that it consisted in its final form of (20) items with five alternatives.
As for the stability, the researcher verified it in two ways:
1- Re-testing: To identify the stability in this way, the researcher used the Pearson correlation coefficient, and the value of the reliability coefficient of the bereavement personality scale was (0.93), while the value of the stability of religious dogmatism was (0.95), which are two high reliability coefficients, according to what the literature indicates. .
2- Alpha-Cronbach: Using this method, it was found that the value of the stability coefficient of the grieving personality scale was (0.877), and the value of the coefficient of stability of the religious dogmatism scale was (0.903), which are very good reliability coefficients based on the criteria set by measurement and evaluation experts. After verifying the validity and reliability of the two scales, the researcher applied them to his research sample and resorted to statistically analyzing the data using the statistical program (SPSS 22) and reached a number of results, the most important of which are:
1- University students suffer from high levels of bereavement personality type.
2- There is no statistical significance for university students to possess religious dogmatism.
3- There is a very weak positive correlation between the bereaved personality and religious dogmatism.
In light of the research results, the researcher presented a number of recommendations and suggestions