Rumination of Ideas Among University Students

Abstract

        The current study aims to identify rumination among university students, while identifying statistically significant differences in rumination according to the variables of gender (males - females) and specialization (scientific - humanities). The Seriki (2010) Rumination Scale, translated by Hassan (2018), was adopted, which consists of (42) items. The apparent validity of the scale was verified by presenting its paragraphs to a group of arbitrators, as well as extracting the discrimination coefficient and correlation coefficient for the paragraphs of the scale. Thus, the scale in its final form consisted of (42) paragraphs. The reliability of the scale was calculated using the retest method, which reached (0.80), and using the Cronbach’s alpha method, it reached (0.79).

   After extracting the validity and reliability of the rumination variable, the researchers applied the scale to the basic research sample consisting of (300) male and female students. After collecting the information forms, the data were processed statistically using the t-test and Pearson’s correlation coefficient. The researchers reached the following results:

1. University students do not ruminate.


2. Individuals of both genders do not ruminate.


3. Individuals (the research sample), by specialty, do not ruminate.