Self-discovery among university students

Abstract

The current research aims at identifying the level of selfdisclosure among the university students, and to ideutify the
differences in the in the level of self- disclosure among college
students in terms of gender (male, female) and specialty
(scientific, humanities), Furthermore, the researchers have set a
self-disclosure scale relying on (Altman and Tylor's|) theory and
their definition of self- disclosure. The researchers, then ,
verified the psychometric characteristics of the scale via two
methods; face value and structure validity. Next to that, the scale
reliability is found out by two means; re-testing with a ratio of
(0.81) and Cronbach's Alpha (0.80). The scale, in its final form,
comprised of (44) self-disclosure items.
Next, the measure was applied on the major sample of the study
of (667) male and female students in the University of Diyala,
undergraduate morning studies in the academic year (2013-2014)
who were selected in the random proportionate Stratified
approach. After statistical data processing via (arithmetic mean,
standard deviation, T-test of one sample, dual-disparity analysis,
Scheffe' post hoc comparisons, Pearson correlation coefficient,
and multiple regression analysis), the following results were
gained:
1-Students have self-disclosure.
2-There is a statistically significant variation on the scale of
self-disclosure in the gender variable (male, female) in favor of
female students, concerning specialty, there is no statistically
significant difference. There is a statistically significant
difference in gender-specialty interaction on the scale of selfdisclosure in favor of female students
In light of the results, the researchers reached a number of
recommendations and suggestions