Post-Traumatic stress disorder and its relation to Cognitive Distortions among university students

Abstract

The current research aims to identify the   Post-traumatic stress disorder and its relation to Cognitive Distortions among university students. The researcher adopted the steps of his research depending on the descriptive approach. The sample was randomized by (100) individuals: (47) for males and (53) for females - for each of the General Sciences and Arabic Language specialization at the Faculty of Basic Education. To achieve the research objectives, the researcher adopted the scale (Khawaja and Bahraini, 2008) for the post-traumatic stress disorder, and (Alasar 2015) scale for cognitive Distortions after achieving validity and Reliability of both measurements. The results showed that there are no differences in post-traumatic stress disorder among the sample members. As for the cognitive Distortions, the results were not statistical references among the sample members, while the correlative relation between the two variables, was a statistical reference and in a positive way.