Problems facing students of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Derna, Al-Qubba Branch

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the academic, social and psychological problems facing the students of the Faculty of Arts, University of Derna, and to know the order of these problems and their relationship to variables: gender, age, scientific specialization, and the academic stage. The descriptive approach was used on a sample consisting of (181) Male and female students from the departments of the Faculty of Arts, Al-Qubba University branch, were chosen using the random sample method, and they relied on the Al-Shammari questionnaire (2013). The results concluded that the study sample students suffer from several problems they face during their studies at the university level, and the order of these problems came in the first place, social problems, followed by academic problems, and finally psychological problems. As it was found that females were more likely than males to get problems during their undergraduate studies. Also, differences were found in favor of the specialization variable, as most of the problems were in the Department of Arabic Language and the least in the Department of Psychology, while it was found that there were no differences in favor of the variables of age and stage of study.