The Social Factors Leading to Academic Stumbling among University Students (Field Study Administered to a Sample of Students at the Faculty of Social Sciences)

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The current study aimed at addressing the social factors leading to
academic stumbling among the university students. The study belongs to
the exploratory studies, namely, studying and describing the phenomenon
in the real world qunatiatively and qualitatively in order to attain
conclusions which may contribute to the development of the real world.
The comprehensive social survey was adopted as the appropriate method
due to the nature of the study, and a questionnaire was developed for
collecting the study data. The participants of the study were stumbled
students who failed to attain the bachelor's degree from the second to the
eighth levels. The results of the study revealed that the level of social
impact on academic stumbling among the study participants was average.
The effect level of the organizational factors on the academic stumbling
level among the study sample was high. The level of acceptance of the
proposed mechanisms to address the problem of the academic stumbling
among the students was high. The results of the study indicated that there is
a difference in the opinions of the study members concerning the social
factors affecting the academic stumbling of the university students with
respect to all the variables of the study (age, level, specialization).
Differences were found to be related to the age of 25 years, the fifth level
and psychology department respectively. As for the degree of difference in
the opinions of the study participants concerning the appropriate
mechanisms to address the problem of academic stumbling among the
university students according to the variables of the study (age, level,
specialization), it was found that there was a difference in the views of the
participants concerning the appropriate mechanisms to address the problem
of academic stumbling taking into account the variables of age and
specialization and there was no difference due to the academic level.

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