This book discusses violence among university youth and its relationship with some psychological and social variables. Such relationship reveals that most influential variables represent causative determinants.
The book aims to reveal the background of university youth violence. It also points out the motivational psychology underlying this violent behavior. In addition, verification of correlation between violence in its various dimensions on the one hand, and the alienation and the socio-economic are verified variables on the other hand.
As such the importance of this book that it discusses one of the important research topics either in theory or in practice is candid. In theory, opinions of the various schools of thought differ widely on interpreting the violence. The book, therefore, sheds light on theoretical frameworks and concepts used. This provides benefit from the theoretical aspect.
In practice, findings of many researches and studies reveal that the university youth violence is associated with a number of psychological variables such as: negative self-esteem; lack of personal efficiency; pessimistic outlook on life; and feeling of loneliness; alienation; frustration; and despair.
The book includes five chapters.
First chapter discusses study problem, objectives, significance, terminology, and scope.
Second chapter focuses on the theoretical framework, concepts used, concept of violence, study presumptions, study methodology, study procedures, study population and sample.
Third chapter discusses the scales used in the study: scale of university youth violence, scale of alienation, social and economic status form, and scale of family education.
Fourth chapter presents study findings and their interpretations as follow: findings associated with motivates towards violence, findings associated with the relationship between violence and the study variables, and findings associated with the possible expectations of variables leading to violence.
Fifth chapter provides a suggestive project for addressing and eliminating the violent behaviors of teenagers and youths.
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