This research has been conducted to identify the factor structure, the nature of the attitudes, and the influence of sex, age, specialization, GPA, and attendance of courses in psychology. A scale of 58 items was developed for this purpose (with a reliability of ␣ = 0.95) and was applied to 260 students from different colleges in Sultan Qaboos University. Using factor analysis, four factors were obtained. The results showed the nature of the sample attitudes was positive. However, only one of the demographic variables was significant, namely attendance of courses in psychology in favors of those who attended psychological courses.
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