دور المسجد في التربية على القيم الأخلاقية من وجهة نظر الشباب في محافظة جدة
The study aimed to identify the role of the mosque in nurturing moral values among youth in Jeddah Governorate from their perspective, to uncover the obstacles that hinder this role and the ways to activate it, and to examine statistically significant differences in youths’ responses according to the variables of employment status, educational qualification, and age. The study adopted the descriptive-analytical approach and used a questionnaire (prepared by the researcher) as the data-collection instrument. It was administered to a sample of (400) young men from Jeddah Governorate, selected using simple random sampling during the academic year 1447 AH/2025. The study results showed that the mosque’s role in nurturing moral values among youth was rated as high, with an overall mean of (3.988). The domain of intellectual honesty ranked first with a mean of (4.025), followed by social solidarity with a mean of (4.007), and then patience with a mean of (3.934), all rated as high. The results also indicated that obstacles to the mosque’s role in nurturing moral values were rated as high, with an overall mean of (3.858). The obstacles related to nurturing social solidarity ranked first, followed by obstacles related to intellectual honesty, and then obstacles related to patience, all rated as high. Furthermore, the results showed that ways to activate the mosque’s role in nurturing moral values were rated as very high, with an overall mean of (4.502). The domain of ways to activate the mosque’s role in nurturing social solidarity ranked first, followed by patience, and then intellectual honesty, all rated as very high. The results also revealed that there were no statistically significant differences in the responses of the sample members attributable to employment status across all study dimensions. However, statistically significant differences attributable to educational qualification were found in the overall score for the mosque’s role, as well as in the domains of social solidarity and patience, in favor of the “secondary or below” group, while no statistically significant differences were found in intellectual honesty or in the two axes of obstacles and activation strategies. Likewise, statistically significant differences attributable to age were found in the overall score for the mosque’s role and in the domains of social solidarity and patience, in favor of the (20–25) age group, whereas no statistically significant differences were recorded in intellectual honesty or in the two axes of obstacles and activation strategies. (Author’s abstract)