The Relationship between the intellectual security and the motivation for achievement of university students

Document Type : Empirical Articles

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This study aimed to determine the relationship between intellectual security and the motivation for achievement of universitystudents. It also aimed to identify the indicators of the role of social workers in enhancing the intellectual security and motivation of university students. We selected a purposive sample of (358) students (first year), (104) male and (254) female. The study concluded that there is a positive and statistically significant relationship between intellectual security in its various dimensions (citizenship, religious, intellectual, security, heritage, moral and media dimensions), and the motivation of university students, at a level of significance of (0.01). There are statistically significant differences between the mean scores of males and females on the scale of intellectual security of university students, in its various dimensions, in favour of males, while there are no statistically significant differences between the mean scores of males and females on the scale of motivation of university students in its various dimensions.

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