شبكة المعلومات العربية التربوية

The study aimed at identifying the causes and solutions of university violence. The study consisted of 1440 male and female students studying at Yarmouk University for the academic year 2017/2018. A suitable questionnaire which consisted of 15 paragraphs was designed to collect the data. To achieve the goals of the study, social survey of non-random sampling and SPSS were used to extract arithmetic averages, standard deviation, and analysis of variance. The study showed the following results: The respondents feel that university violence is one of the most important problems in the contemporary Jordanian society. The most important reasons of university violence were weak socialization processes, poor media awareness, watching violent films and considering violence as a means to solve problems among students. In light of the results of the study, the researchers recommended the need to tighten penalties towards practitioners of university violence, and the establishment of awareness programs for new students so as not to fall prey to these practices. In addition, the study recommended the need to conduct further studies on the topic due to its importance. (Published abstract)