The University students' Tendency Towards the Mind Terrorism and its Relation to some Variables

University students are regarded as an important class of society where they form the majority of its fabric. The significance of the future roles in leadership and the diversity of the attitudes and approaches are regarded as important determinants of the students’ behaviour. Thus the present study aims to design a scale for the university students’ attitude towards intellectual terrorism, identify the level of their attitudes and the connection of such attitude with gender and academic filed. The two researchers have formulated four hypotheses to be tested statistically.
The study sample represents students from the University of Kufa for the academic year 2014-2015., Faculty of Mathematics & Computer Science and the Faculty of Education. Total number of the participants is 247 for both the Scientific and Humanity majors.
A scale which consists of 33 items is designed to measure the attitude towards intellectual terrorism. Three fields are included: verbal, political and cultural terrorism. The psychometric characteristics reveal 0.75 stability. The study concludes the following:
1- There are statistic differences which indicate negative attitude towards intellectual terrorism.
2- There are no statistic differences between male and female students towards intellectual terrorism.
3- There are no statistic differences between students from the scientific and humanity majors towards intellectual terrorism.
The researchers recommend and suggest the following:
1- Holding workshops and seminars that mainly address the risk of intellectual terrorism and pay the university students’ attention to the prevention means.
2- Including intellectual terrorism in the human rights syllabus that is taught to the first year student at the Iraqi universities and institutes.
3- Conducting a pilot study to examine the impact of a guidance program that is intended to modify the students’ attitude towards intellectual terrorism.
4- Conducting a study that reveals the correlative relationship between the students’ attitude towards intellectual terrorism and its relationship with different variables that the present study has not researched.