Depression and its Relationship to Religiosity Among University Students

Abstract

The research was limited to a sample of (400) male and female students from the Universities of Al-Qadisiyah and Kufa for both sexes (males and females), and specialization (scientific and humanitarian) for the academic year (2019-2020), and the standards were applied to them electronically due to the Corona pandemic, and to achieve Objectives of the current research The researcher adopted the Beck depression scale prepared by (Beck, 1984) Arabization of the stranger (2000), and after extracting the psychometric properties of the scale from validity and reliability, the scale became in its final form consisting of (21) items In front of each paragraph there are four alternatives, the examinee chooses the alternative that applies to him. The degree of the alternatives ranges from (zero) to (3) according to the alternative that approaches or moves away from measuring depression. Therefore, the highest score that the respondent can obtain on the scale is (63) degrees and the lowest. degree (zero), while the hypothetical mean of the scale is (31.5).

 The results showed the following

The research sample has depression at a weak level.  The sample has a high level of religiosity, and the average scores of the sample members on the religiosity scale were statistically significant. There is a relationship between depression and religiosity is a statistically significant inverse relationship, which means that the lower the level of depression in the research sample, the higher their level of religiosity.