The Vocational and Psychological Guiding and Counseling Needs of Students at Al-Balqa Applied University (original) (raw)

2018, Review of European Studies

The study aims to expose the vocational and psychological guiding and counseling needs of students at Al-Balqa' Applied University (BAU), and the study tool was implemented; after confirming the sincerity and stability of it, which consists of (60) articles, that represents the vocational and psychological guiding and counseling needs for its sample of (291) BAU students for the second semester of the academic year (2016-2017). The study results showed that level of vocational and psychological guiding and counseling needs of students at BAU is medium, where (28) articles of needs came at high level, while (32) came at medium level. It showed the existence of statistically significant difference at (α = 0.05) level between the arithmetic means of study sample members estimation on the articles of vocational and psychological guiding and counseling needs scale, as a whole, due to the sex variable of female, and the existence of statistically significant difference at (α = 0.05) level between the arithmetic means of study sample members estimation on the articles of vocational and psychological guiding and counseling needs scale, as a whole, due to the study phase variable of diploma compared with the bachelor degree, and it also showed the existence of statistically significant difference at (α = 0.05) level between the arithmetic means of study sample members estimation on the articles of vocational and psychological guiding and counseling needs scale, as a whole, due to the major variable of humanity and occupational compared with the science major. Keywords: Al-Balqa' Applied University (BAU) students, psychological guiding and counseling needs, vocational guiding and counseling needs period, which reveals the students prospective, directions, values, and mental abilities, in addition to their multiple needs and motives (Kolone, Scanlan, Karen, and Christine, 2006). University students considers the backbone of nation and the foundation of its advancement and development, where building and developing the society rest on their shoulders and lies upon them, and caring about this element and paying attention to them considers of great importance, since the process of preparing and rehabilitating them is the foundation for building society and its distinction, especially the students of technical and vocational majors, where the world turns today to the process of vocational education, due to increase in unemployment rates in the world, especially in the non-developing countries, where the political and governmental plans always refer to the interest in vocational and technical education and encourage its followers (Fogel & Melson, 2004). The student's personality cultivates and refines during the university period, and this includes student prospective, directions, needs, and multiple motives, also the stable social conditions provide wider opportunities to achieve a high res.ccsenet.org