Creating Self-challenge among university students

Abstract

The research aims to identify:

• The level of self-challenge among university students.
• The significance of the differences in creating self-challenge

Research community: The research community consists of students of the University of Diyala of both genders (males, females) and specialization (scientific, humanities) from the morning undergraduate students for the academic year (2024-2025), as it reached (20226) male and female students distributed according to specialization and gender. The number of male students in the scientific specialization reached (4154) students and the number of female students in the scientific specialization (4871) female students. As for the humanities specialization for males, it reached (4042) students, while the number of females in the humanities specialization reached (7159) female students. This research community includes all the apparent terms that it studies.

Research sample: The researcher uses a sample because it is complex to study the entire population (Al-Kubaisi, 2007: 217). It is the group on which data is collected in the study, and which is chosen from the study population to represent that population in the research being studied.

Research tools: To achieve the research objectives, the researcher constructed a self-challenge scale (according to the Self-Challenge Theory 2022) that included (21) paragraphs. Its validity and reliability were extracted and applied to a sample of (200) male and female students who were selected randomly from university students for morning studies for the academic year (2024-2025) distributed equally according to the gender variable, and from both specializations (humanities - scientific). Constructive validity and apparent validity were verified, as well as the stability of the scale by two retest methods. The reliability coefficient reached (0.90), while the tool's reliability coefficient by Cronbach's alpha method reached (0.91). By using the statistical package (SPSS), as statistical means to reach the results: It was found that university students enjoy self-challenge and there are statistically significant differences in measuring self-challenge according to the gender variables (males, females). In light of the research results, a number of recommendations and proposals were made.

1. University students have a self-challenge.
2. There are statistically significant differences in the level of self-challenge according to the variables of gender and in favor of females, and there are no statistically significant differences according to specialization. In continuation of the aspects related to the research, the research came out with some suggestions, recommendations and conclusions, as self-challenge exists among the research sample. The results showed that there were differences in self-challenge among the research sample according to the gender variable and in favor of females.