The current study investigates the relationship between personality traits according to the big five personality factors model, academic self-efficacy and academic adaptation among Hashemite University students in light of gender and specialization. The purposive sample consisted of 546 under graduated students, 258 males and 306 females. Three scales are used: the Five Factor Model (FFM), for academic self-efficacy and for academic adaption. The results show statistically significant differences in the average of participants’ degrees attributed to efficacy and academic adaption in favor of females and scientific specializations. They also show that agreeableness, conscientiousness, openness to experience, extroversion and neuroticism are most common among university students, with a statistically significant positive correlation between extroversion, openness to experience, academic self-efficacy and academic adaption and a negative correlation between neuroticism, conscientiousness, academic self-efficacy and academic adaption. No correlation was found between agreeableness and these two variables.

The present study investigates the relationship between social self-efficacy, loneliness and internet addiction among Hashemite University students. It defines the level of social self-efficacy, and whether there are statistically significant differences by gender, academic specialization and academic level; and defines the levels of loneliness and internet addiction. The purposive sample consisted of (618) students at Hashemite University. The Social Self-efficacy, Loneliness and Internet Addiction Scales were used. The results show that the level of social self-efficacy was medium, with statistically significant differences in the level of social self-efficacy attributed to students by gender in favor of male students, and in the level of social self-efficacy by academic level in favor  of second-year students. The level of loneliness was medium, as was the level of internet addiction. There was a negative correlation between social self-efficacy and loneliness and internet addiction, and a positive correlation between loneliness and internet addiction.

Background. The study of emotional creativity has not received very much attention in Arab studies. Emotional creativity is a clear concept that appears in the everyday practice of individuals.Objective. The present study aimed to examine the effect of a training program on emotional creativity among undergraduate students.Design. The study comprised 67 undergraduate students at the Hashemite University; the participants were divided between a control group (N = 35), and an experimental group (N = 32), and data was collected using the Emotional Creativity Inventory (ECI).Results. The results showed that the training program was effective in improving participants' emotional creativity, and a statistically significant difference was found between the control and experimental groups, showing the effectiveness of the training program in favor of the experimental group. The researcher recommends that students begin to be trained in emotional creativity skills from an early age.Conclusion. The results of data analysis in the current study document the impact of the training program in improving the level of emotional creativity among members of the experimental group. This may be due to the strategies and techniques used in the training program, which contributed to raising the level of emotional creativity.

The present study aimed at comparing the level of cultural intelligence among teachers and university students, and to define whether there are statistically significant differences in the level of cultural intelligence due to gender variables. The sample consisted of 300 teachers and 400 students at the Hashemite University, chosen by random selection, and data collected using the Cultural Intelligence Scale. Results of the study showed a high level of cultural intelligence among teachers and university students and also showed Statistically significant differences were also found in the levels of both cognitive and behavioral cultural intelligence attributed to teachers and university students, in favor of teachers. And statistically significant differences in the level of motivational cultural intelligence in favor of male teachers, and statistically significant differences in the level of behavioral cultural intelligence in favor of female teachers. The results of the study also showed statistically significant differences in the levels of cultural intelligence, meta-cognitive cultural intelligence, cognitive cultural intelligence and motivational cultural intelligence in favor of male students.

The current study compares the empathic tendencies of student nurses and student teachers and identifies whether there are significant differences in the levels due to gender and academic level, data were collected from a study sample of 552 student nurses and student teachers using the Empathic Tendencies Scale. Results showed moderate levels with no significant differences between nurses and teachers, but showed significant differences in the level of empathic tendencies by gender, in favour of female students, and by academic level, in favour of third- and fourth-year academic students.   Received: 17 January 2021 / Accepted: 3 March 2021 / Published: 10 May 2021