Abstract

The aim of this research is to measure the moral anxiety among university students. The researcher built a measure to measure moral anxiety by identifying (12) components and a number of items based on the weight of the components from the point of view of a number of arbitrators and experts. The researcher extracted the psychometric characteristics of the items as they extracted the parameters of the items of the scale as well as the parameters of the correlation of the items with the total score, after applying the scale to the sample of discrimination that reached (481) students and after extracting the psychometric characteristics of the items. (11) Items were deleted and (50) items were retained in the scale as finalized. Then, the researcher extracted the psychometric properties of the scale as it extracted the sincerity in two ways, the virtual honesty and the structural validity of the scale. It consisted of (300) male and female students in order to know the level of moral anxiety among students and to know the difference between their responses according to sex and specialization variables.1 - In general, university students have a moral concern.2 – The results show non-significant differences between the responses of students on the moral anxiety scale based on gender.3 - The results show non-significant differences between the responses of students on the moral anxiety scale based on students specialization.At the end of the study, the researcher made a number of recommendations and suggestions to benefit from the results of the research and work on further research in the future regarding the term of moral anxiety in other samples and segments of society.