Analyzing Reasons of Psychological Stress for Graduate Engineers in Jordan

Ahmad Al Dadoul^1, and Abeer Al Dadoul²

¹Mechanical Engineering, Independent Researcher, Amman, Jordan

²Mental Health Nursing, Hebron University, Bethlehem, Palestine

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Ahmad Al Dadoul and Abeer Al Dadoul. Analyzing Reasons of Psychological Stress for Graduate Engineers in Jordan. Research in Psychology and Behavioral Sciences. 2020; 8(1):11-17. doi: 10.12691/rpbs-8-1-2

Abstract

The engineering branch in Jordan is one of the most desirable sectors be studied, for its importance in building society and its requirements. The main objective of this study was to determine the most important reasons for increasing psychological stress on engineering students. By knowing the causes, we can generalize the causes of the phenomenon, which enables us to avoid or reduce its occurrence, so that the psychological stress of engineering students do not develop and become within the psychological disease. No one wants to weaken the pillars of society; development of the psychological state negatively affects all members of society. This research carried out using the electronic questionnaire method and its results analyzed using SPSS program, this is to produce the percentages shown in the tables. One of the most important results we obtained from this research is that we have identified 83% of the main causes of psychological stress among engineering students. The reasons that we mentioned confined to the academic and the economic. This will facilitate in the future to find solutions to the problems of psychological stress for engineers and prevent the development of the psychological state to become disease with increasing pressure.

Keywords:
engineering psychological stress mental health data analyses

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