The Psychological Loneliness Among Students of Faculty of Science at Alasmarya Islamic University

Abstract

The present research aimed to identify level of psychological loneliness among the students of the faculty of science at Alasmarya Islamic University in the city of Zliten. The research sample was consisted of 302 students, including (113) male and (189) female students who were selected using a stratified random sampling method. The Psychological Loneliness Scale prepared by Rasel (1996) was used. To achieve its objectives, the descriptive and analytical method was used. The research results showed that level of psychological loneliness among students of the faculty of science at Alasmarya Islamic University was low. As showed, there were no statistically significant differences on the full scale of psychological loneliness at the level of (0.05) with regard to gender variable. The results indicated that there were statistically significant differences on the full scale of psychological loneliness at the level of (0.01) with regard to Marital status variable in favor of unmarried students. As indicated, there were statistically significant differences on the full scale of psychological loneliness at the level of (0.01) with regard to semester variable in favor of second semester.