Health Awareness among High and Average Achievers in Professional Psychologist Program

Abstract

The purpose of the current study was to identify health awareness degree among students attending the Professional Psychologist Program. The randomly selected sample consisted of students (n= 123, M= 83, F= 40) pursuing the Professional Psychologist Program at King Khaled University. The analytical descriptive approach was applied in the study and Health Awareness Scale developed by the author was administered to participants. Results indicated that:

• The health awareness among professional psychology program students was rated high.


• There were no statistically significant differences at (α=≤0.05) attributed to effect of sex on the health awareness overall degree.


• There were statistically significant differences at (α≤0.05) attributed to effect of achievement on the health awareness overall degree, and differences were in favor of high achievers.


• There were statistically significant differences at (α=0.05) between third versus first year students, from a hand, and between send year students from another, where differences were in favor of third year students regarding healthy nutrition, communicable disease, and overall degree.