Main description (English)

The research aims to identify:‎ ‎1-‎ The level of self-challenge among university students.‎ ‎2-‎ The significance of the differences in creating self-challenge ‎ Research community: The research community consists of students ‎of the University of Diyala of both genders (males, females) and ‎specialization (scientific, humanities) from the morning ‎undergraduate students for the academic year (2024-2025), as it ‎reached (20226) male and female students distributed according ‎to specialization and gender. The number of male students in the ‎scientific specialization reached (4154) students and the number ‎of female students in the scientific specialization (4871) female ‎students. As for the humanities specialization for males, it reached ‎‎(4042) students, while the number of females in the humanities ‎specialization reached (7159) female students. This research ‎community includes all the apparent terms that it studies.‎ Research sample: The researcher uses a sample because it is ‎complex to study the entire population (Al-Kubaisi, 2007: 217). It ‎is the group on which data is collected in the study, and which is ‎chosen from the study population to represent that population in ‎the research being studied.‎ Research tools: To achieve the research objectives, the researcher ‎constructed a self-challenge scale (according to the Self-‎Challenge Theory 2022) that included (21) paragraphs. Its ‎validity and reliability were extracted and applied to a sample of ‎‎(200) male and female students who were selected randomly from ‎university students for morning studies for the academic year ‎‎(2024-2025) distributed equally according to the gender variable, ‎and from both specializations (humanities - scientific). ‎Constructive validity and apparent validity were verified, as well ‎as the stability of the scale by two retest methods. The reliability ‎coefficient reached (0.90), while the tool's reliability coefficient ‎by Cronbach's alpha method reached (0.91). By using the ‎statistical package (SPSS), as statistical means to reach the ‎results: It was found that university students enjoy self-challenge ‎and there are statistically significant differences in measuring self-‎challenge according to the gender variables (males, females). In ‎light of the research results, a number of recommendations and ‎proposals were made.‎ ‎1. University students have a self-challenge.‎ ‎2. There are statistically significant differences in the level of self-‎challenge according to the variables of gender and in favor of ‎females, and there are no statistically significant differences ‎according to specialization. In continuation of the aspects related ‎to the research, the research came out with some suggestions, ‎recommendations and conclusions, as self-challenge exists among ‎the research sample. The results showed that there were ‎differences in self-challenge among the research sample according ‎to the gender variable and in favor of females‎