Attitudes of students of psychology departments in Sudanese universities towards people with disabilities (Psychology male and female students in universities in the state of Gezira as a model)

Abstract

The level of disability is determined by the environment's ability to create legal conditions, and the concept of disability has carried several connotations throughout history and cultures that have been affected by the moral character sometimes, medical, educational, and rehabilitative at other times, and the material and social that enables the individual to participate, interact and integrate. The study aimed to identify the trends of the departments of psychology Towards people with disabilities, and the research community consisted of male and female students from the psychology departments of universities (Al-Jazeera, Al-Batana, and the Holy Qur’an), from whom the researcher chose (313) male and female students by the stratified random method to represent the study community. For the study, the data were analyzed by the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) program. The study found several findings, including: the attitudes of students of psychology departments in Sudanese universities towards people with disabilities are positive, there are no differences in the attitudes of psychology students towards people with disabilities according to the gender variable, and there are no differences in the attitudes of psychology students towards people with disabilities according to the Al-Jakea variable, The study recommends the importance of raising the practical training quota for psychology students in Sudanese universities.