The Level of Wisdom and Its Relationship to The Trend Towards Extremism Among the Students of Umm Al-Qura University

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Department of Psychology, College of Education, Umm Al-Qura University, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

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The study aimed to identify the level of wisdom and its relationship to the trend towards extremism among the students of Umm Al-Qura University. The researcher used the descriptive approach (relational - comparative). The study sample consisted of (604) male and female students from Umm Al-Qura University for the academic year 1437-1438 AH for the bachelor's stage of the first and fourth year of the scientific and theoretical specializations. The researcher used the scale of wisdom prepared by Webster (2007) after Arabizing the Arab environment by the researcher, and the scale (the tendency towards extremism) prepared by the researcher. The results of the study showed that the level of wisdom in general among the students of Umm Al-Qura University in Makkah is average, and that The level of the trend towards extremism in general among the students of Umm Al-Qura University in Makkah was weak, and the results showed an inverse correlation between the level of wisdom and the level of the trend towards extremism, the higher the level of wisdom, the lower the level of the trend towards extremism and vice versa.
 

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