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The present study examined if the Ego Identity Status Predictor for attitude to Cyber Terrorism in a sample of 400 Egyptian male and female university’ Student (200 Male, 200 Female) from Zagazig, Benha Mansoura, Suez, Ain Shams university, 226 of them from theoretical colleagues, 174 from practical colleagues. Age ranged 18-25 year, with an average age 21.27 a year, and standard deviation of 1.75. The number of first year students 75, the second year 92 student, the third year 137 student, and the number of fourth year students 96. The current study used OM-EIS scale prepared by Adams, Bennion & Huh 1989 in the light of Erickson theory and Marcia amendments that translated into Arabic by Mohamed El Sayed Abdurrahman 1998 to assess identity status, as well as the scale of the attitude to cyber terrorism prepared by the researcher. The results indicated that the degree of identity diffusion, identity foreclosed, identity Moratorium, identity achieved significant positively predicted positive attitude toward cyber terrorism. Results also indicated that some identity status predict better than each other the attitude to cyber terrorism. And there are significant statistically differences between males and females in the attitude to cyber terrorism in favor of males, the results showed that males are more trend towards cyber terrorism in general. The results are discussed in terms of the previous literature and its practical implications. (Published abstract)