Disengagement from the goal among university students

Abstract

The current research aims to identify goal disengagement among university students and to explore differences in goal disengagement according to the variables of gender and major. To achieve the research objectives، the researcher adopted the Goal Disengagement Scale based on the model by Wrosch and Michael F. Scheier (2003)، consisting of 10 items in its final form after being translated into Arabic. The researcher extracted the psychometric properties of the scale، verifying its validity and reliability. The researcher applied the tool to a final sample of 380 students، comprising 189 male and 191 female students from various majors at Al-Mustansiriyah University ، selected through stratified random sampling. After administering the research tool and statistically analyzing the data using statistical methods، the researcher reached the following conclusions: the sample has goal disengagement،there is a statistically significant difference in goal disengagement according to gender، favoring males، and there is a statistically significant difference according to the major، favoring science majors. No interaction between the variables of gender and major was found. Based on the current research results، the researcher reached a set of recommendations and suggestions.