Self-protection behavior and its relationship to passion among university students
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This research aims to: identify (self-protection/passion) among university students, and reveal the relationship between them. To achieve this goal, the researcher adopted a scale (Khudair, 2023) for self-protection behavior, and a scale (Abbas, 2022) for passion, and after procedures for the psychometric properties of the two scales, which are: With honesty and consistency, they were applied to a simple random sample of university students, which amounted to (400) male and female students. After analyzing the data statistically using the SPSS program for the social sciences, the results showed that the students enjoyed self-protection behavior and passion, and the relationship between the two variables was a direct positive relationship. The results indicated that there was no There are statistically significant differences between the two variables and according to the gender variable (males - females) It also indicated that there are statistically significant differences in favor of scientific specialization in this relationship, and in light of the research results, the researcher recommended a number of important recommendations and proposals.
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