Emotional understanding and its relationship to intellectual security among Mutah University students

Abstract

This study aimed to find out the relationship of emotional understanding with intellectual
security among students of Mu'tah University. To achieve the objectives of the study، two
measures have been developed، the first one is for measuring emotional understanding and
includes (34) items، while the second for measuring intellectual security and includes (25) items.
The study population consisted of (23) thousand students enrolled in Mu'tah University for the
academic year (2018-2019), the sample of the study consisted of (377) male and female students.
The results of the study showed that the perceptions of the emotional understanding came to a
moderate degree, and the intellectual security came to a moderate degree, and that there is a
statistically significant relationship at the level of significance (α <= 0.05) between the emotional
understanding in all its dimensions and intellectual security in all its dimensions, there’s no
statistically significant differences toward emotional understanding due to the gender variable,
and there’s statistically significant differences toward emotional understanding due to the
variables (College, academic year, grade). In addition, emotional understanding as a whole
explains (90.6%) of the variance in the total dependent variable (intellectual security).