Value Conflict of Preparatory Year Female Students at Imam Abdul Rahman bin Faisal University in the Light of Contemporary Global Changes

Abstract

The study aimed to investigate the degree of value conflict among female students of the preparatory year at Imam Abdul Rahman bin Faisal University in the light of contemporary global changes. Thus, to achieve the goal of the study, a tool was developed consisting of (32) items equally divided into four areas: the social field, the political field, the economic field and the intellectual cultural field. After the tool was verified for acceptable validity and reliability, it was applied to the study sample consisting of (212) female students of the preparatory year at Imam Abdul Rahman bin Faisal University. The results of the study showed that the degree of value conflict among them was medium, where the social field got the first rank, while the intellectual cultural field got the fourth and last rank. Item No. (2)  that states “I hesitate to accept the new roles of women in society in the areas of political, cultural and social life, due to the need for her to devote herself to taking care of the affairs of her home and raising her children” ranked first in the social field, while item No. (3) that states “I believe that the achievement of Arab unity , just a dream that will not come true” ranked first in the political field. For the economic field, item No. (2) that states “I confused between going to buy national products and local industries or going to buy a foreign commodity” ranked first.  In the intellectual cultural field, the item No. (8) that states: “I hesitate to consider her Arab-Islamic culture a culture of peace, openness and acceptance of the other, or to consider it a culture of violence and terrorism, as the West claims” ranked first. Finally, the study ended with a set of recommendations, the most important of which are the importance of balancing female students between the new roles of women in society and the need for her to devote herself to taking care of the affairs of her home and raising her children, encouraging female students to purchase national products and local industries, and increasing confidence in them.