The Degree of Sovereignty Consumerism and Its Impact on the Level of Social Responsibility Among Students of Qassim University, Faculty of Sciences and Arts in ArRass for the Academic Year (2015/2016)
Keywords:
Consumerism, socialresponsibility, the university students.Abstract
The study aimed to detect the degree of consumerism sovereignty and its impact on the level of social responsibility among students of Qassim University College of Arts and Sciences in ArRass. The study sample consisted of 200 students, of scientific and literary sections who were selected randomly. In order to achieve the objectives of the study two measures were built: the consumption pattern which consists in its final version of (43) paragraph. While the second tool is the measure of social responsibility, its final version consists of (57) paragraph, split into four dimensions: self-responsibility, collective responsibility, moral and religious responsibility, and national responsibility. The validity and reliability of the two measures have been checked.
The study results showed the sovereignty of the consumerism of the female students at the University of Qassim with a general high-level,the average of consumerism as a whole (2.39). The results showed that the average of social responsibility of the sample was generally medium, while the arithmetic average ranged between (1.96-2.23), where the national responsibility came in the first rank of the highest average reached (2.23), While the field of self-responsibility was in the last place where the arithmetic average was (1.96), and (2.13) for social responsibility as a whole.
The results show as well the presence of a negative relationship statistically significant between the consumerism and the field of self-responsibility, religious and moral responsibility and the presence of statistically significant positive relationship between the consumerism and the rest of fields and social responsibility as a whole. And the lack of statistically significant differences in the strength of the correlation between the consumerism and level of social responsibility due to the effect of income and the school year and college.
The results showed a lack of statistically significant differences between the level of social responsibility among the students due to the effect of the level of income and college in all fields. And the presence of a statistical significant difference due to the effect of the school year in all fields, the differences were in favour of the fourth year in the field of self-responsibility, and for the first year in the other fields.
Finally, the results showed the lack of statistically significant differences in the strength of the correlation between the consumerism and level of social responsibility due to the impact of income and the school year and college.
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