Self-advocacy among university students

Abstract

The current research aims to know: Self-advocacy among university students. In order to achieve the objectives of the research, the two researchers chose the research sample from the students of the University of Babylon, according to the simple random method, five colleges, two humanities and three scientific colleges, and applied the Thomson equation to extract the sample size, and the result was that the research sample reached (378) male and female students were distributed according to the method of random stratification with a proportional distribution. The self-advocacy measurement tool and Harris definition (Harris, 2009) and its self-advocacy measurement tool, which consists of (48) items distributed over five domains, were applied to the research sample. On the research sample, and after conducting the statistical analysis and extracting the validity and reliability values of the scale, the research reached the following results: University students have self-advocacy. In light of this, the researchers reached a set of proposals and recommendations.