Compatibility with University Life for Al Ain University Students in Light of a Number of Demographic Variables

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the reality of compatibility in its four domains, i.e. social, academic, disciplinary, and emotional among students of Al Ain University in the UAE. It also aimed to know the differences in the reality of compatibility according to the variables under study and the interaction between them (college, gender, change of specialization, and residence in the place of the university), to achieve the objectives of the study, the two researchers used the University Compatibility Scale. The sample consisted of (422) male and female students, including (173) male and (249) female students in the second semester 2019/2020. The results showed that the reality of compatibility in all its four dimensions is positive among the sample members, as in the first rank came the social domain at a ratio (74.8%), followed by the emotional (56.47%), then disciplinary (54.80%), and finally the academic (51.53%). The study results also revealed no statistically significant differences in the reality of compatibility in each domain (social, academic, and disciplinary) in the college variable. It was clear that there are differences in the emotional domain in favor of the human faculties and the absence of differences in the two domains, i.e. social and emotional in the gender variable. The study also resulted in the absence of differences in the disciplinary domain in the variable of change of specialization, while the existence of statistically significant differences in the domains (social, academic and emotional) according to the variable of change of specialization, in favor of students who did not change their specialization in the social and academic domains, and the overall degree of compatibility. The results also indicated that there are no differences in the residency in the location of the university variable in the two domains, i.e. disciplinary and emotional, while the differences in the two domains, i.e. social and academic are in favor of students who reside in the location of the university, in light of the results of the study, some recommendations were mentioned.