College Of Basic Education Researches Journal

Abstract

This study aimed to identify the goals of life of university students and see if there were statistically significant differences in the goals of life according to the variable gender and educational grade, the research sample consist of (420) students (male/female) from the University of Duhok , and to achieve the aims of the research life goals scale has been building at University Students includes eight fields (academic, personal growth, family, social relations, healthy, spiritual, financial, entertainment) , as has been extracted psychometric properties from reliability and validity of the scale and in multiple types, and after applying the scale on the sample of the research the data have been treated statistically using one sample t-test and two independent samples t-test ,the result showed that the research sample individuals have goals for life in general, and though the fields of the eight scale the results showed that the sample individuals have goals related of study field, personal growth, family, social relations, spiritual ,and entertainment, and not having goals related to healthy and financial field , but for difference goals of life according to the gender (male/female),the results has revealed existence of statistical significant differences in the two field of life goals , first the spiritual field and the difference was in favor of females and the second is the financial field and the difference was in favor of males, and for the differences in the stage variable study , showed there are differences in life goals relating to study, family and financial field, and the difference was for the benefit of students in the fourth stage.