Guilty feeling among Islamic university students and its relation with their religious commitment

The aim of this study was to identify the level of guilty feeling among Islamic university students and its relation with their religious commitment and then to the effect of some variables on the level of guilty feeling and religious commitment. The distributive analytical method was used in this study. The sample of this study consisted of (727) male and female students which represents (5%) of (15441) students, the original society from the nine faculties and their departments. The researchers developed two questionnaires, the first to measure the level of guilty feeling among university students, and the second to measure the level of religious commitment. The results of this study indicated that the level of guilty feeling among university student was (73.31%) and the level of religious commitment among them (82.94%).The results also revealed that there were statistically significant differences among students in the level of guilty feeling due to sex towards female students, which means that the level of guilty feeling among female students is higher than male students. Also the study showed there is significant positive correlation between guilty feeling and religious commitment among Islamic university students. The researchers recommended the necessity for establishing counselling programs for university students to increase awareness of students about the concept of guilty feeling and the factors affecting it and correcting the wrong concepts, clarifying the importance of distinguishing between positive and negative guilty feeling, and how to empower the role of religion in relieving the negative guilty feelings.