Abstract

European Journal of Scientific Research, Volume 129 Issue 1.

The present study aimed at investigating the relationship between traumatic events and the aftermath pressure disorders ,depression, and the degree of religiosity among a sample of Mu'tah University students during second semester for the academic year 2013-2014. The study sample consisted of (490) students, divided into (262) male, and (228 students) female students, where (195) of them were from science colleges and 295 from humanities colleges, using simple random method. After scanning the previous studies and literature, three tools were used, the first related to the scale of depression (Beck) and the second related to post traumatic scale, while the third related to religiosity scale, The Results showed a positive and statistically significant relationship between students suffering traumatic events, and the PTSD(depression and the degree of religiosity) among university students.  In other words, with the increase of traumatic events, religiosity and depression increase, the results indicated that there were no statistically significant differences in the level of traumatic events among university students attributed to gender, where the value of (T) = 0.779. The results showed significant differences in the level of PTSD among university students attributed to the academic achievement, where (P)= (14.37).In  the light of these results, the study came out with several recommendations.