المتغيرات النفسية ودورها في انتشار الأيديولوجيات المتطرفة بين طلاب الجامعات

Abstract

The study seeks to reveal the role of psychological variables in spreading extremist ideologies among university students. For achieving the study objective, the structural equation modeling is used for constructing a hypothetical theoretical model on the relationship between psychological pollution, anticipatory anxiety, and intellectual extremism. During the academic year (2022-2023 AD), scales of psychological pollution prepared by Ramadan & Al-Jubari (2015), anticipatory anxiety prepared by Shukair (2005), and intellectual extremism prepared by Al-Dosari & Harahsheh (2021), have been applied on (421) students of University of Jeddah. The findings show that the proposed hypothetical model had a good validity and reliability, and indicated a statistically significant relationship between intellectual extremism and psychological pollution, between intellectual extremism and anticipatory anxiety, and between anticipatory anxiety and psychological pollution. Finally, the study recommends that more research should be conducted on other psychological variables that may have a role in spreading intellectual extremism.