The Complex post-basic thinking and its relationship to self-protection in university students

The current research aimed to know: 1. Complex post-basic thinking among university students. 2. Self-protection for university students. 3. The correlation between complex post-basic thinking and self-protection among university students. 4. The differences in the correlation between complex post-basic thinking and self-protection among university students according to the gender variable (male - female) and specialization (scientific - human). To achieve the objectives of the research, the researcher built a scale for complex post-basic thinking based on the theory of Jean-Sinnott (Jan-sinnott, 1998). (Social context) and the adoption of the self-protection scale based on Murray’s theory, expressed by (Bahia, 2019). The scale consisted of (44) items distributed over three areas (embarrassing situations, avoiding the conditions of minimization, indifference from others). After verifying the indications of their sincerity and stability, the application is applied to the final research sample of (400) male and female students, who were tested using the stratified random method and on the basis of proportional distribution according to the variables (gender-specialty) and using the statistical package for social sciences (spss). The research reached the following results: 1. Complex post-basic thinking among university students. 2. The differences in complex post-basic thinking among university students according to the variables (male - female) and specialization (scientific – human). 3. Self-protection for university students. 4. Differences in self-protection among university students according to gender (male - female) and specialization (scientific - human) variables. 5. The correlation between complex post-basic thinking and self-protection among university students. 6. The differences in the correlation between complex post-basic thinking and self-protection among university students according to the variables of gender (male - female) and specialization (scientific - human). Keywords: complex post-basic thinking - self-protection - university student