The Level of Friendship Skills and its Relationship to Hope among Bachelor's Students of Ajloun National University

Abstract

The study aimed to identify the levels of friendship skills and its relationship to hope among bachelor's students of Ajloun national university. To achieve the aims of the study a sample from bachelor students in Ajloun national university was chosen by simple random sample which consisted of 100 students. The two scales were developed: The Hope scale and friendship skills scale, and then their psychometric properties were verified. The results of the study concluded that there was a high level of hope and friendship Skills among students, and there was a positive relationship between the hope and friendship skills. Also, there were no statistical differences in the levels of hope and friendship skills due to gender. Based on the results of the study, some recommendations were made, including; Benefiting from the interrelated relationship between friendship skills and the hope, as increasing one of them contributes to increasing the other and conducting more educational and counselling studies for other categories of university students, such as graduate students, tofind out the level of friendship and hope skills they have.