Mindfulness and its relationship to Social Perception university students

Abstract

The most important thing related to mindfulness is the clarity of the individual's internal and external awareness. Awareness is the sense of the stimulus, including the five physical senses that work in the brain. It is the closest direct means of communicating with facts and events. When the stimulus is strong enough to capture attention, which appears to be an initial observation, the feeling shifts towards the stimulus. Social awareness is the awareness of others, which means arranging them in cultural categories that have meaning, with full awareness of their status and roles. Therefore, the current research aimed to identify mindfulness and social awareness among university students and the correlation between them. In order to verify this, the researcher adopted the mindfulness scale of (Abdullah 2012), which consists in its final form of (36) paragraphs, and each paragraph has five alternatives after the psychometric properties procedures according to the construction methodology and adopted the scale of (Al-Kanani, 2013), which consists of (32) paragraphs in its final form and the response to the scale consists of three choices. After the statistical procedures, the psychometric properties of the research sample (400) male and female students from the university who were randomly selected were calculated. After collecting the information and processing it statistically, the researcher reached the following results:

- University students enjoy alert mental awareness.

- University students enjoy a good level of social awareness.

- There is a positive and significant correlation between mindfulness and social awareness.

Based on the results of the current research, some recommendations and future proposals were reached.