The Vocational and Psychological Guiding and Counseling Needs of Students at Al-Balqa Applied University

Abstract

The study aims to expose the vocational and psychological guiding and counseling needs of students at Al-Balqa' Applied University (BAU), and the study tool was implemented; after confirming the sincerity and stability of it, which consists of (60) articles, that represents the vocational and psychological guiding and counseling needs for its sample of (291) BAU students for the second semester of the academic year (2016-2017). The study results showed that level of vocational and psychological guiding and counseling needs of students at BAU is medium, where (28) articles of needs came at high level, while (32) came at medium level. It showed the existence of statistically significant difference at (α = 0.05) level between the arithmetic means of study sample members estimation on the articles of vocational and psychological guiding and counseling needs scale, as a whole, due to the sex variable of female, and the existence of statistically significant difference at (α = 0.05) level between the arithmetic means of study sample members estimation on the articles of vocational and psychological guiding and counseling needs scale, as a whole, due to the study phase variable of diploma compared with the bachelor degree, and it also showed the existence of statistically significant difference at (α = 0.05) level between the arithmetic means of study sample members estimation on the articles of vocational and psychological guiding and counseling needs scale, as a whole, due to the major variable of humanity and occupational compared with the science major.