الملخص الإنجليزي
The study aimed at identifying the attitudes of university youth towards
participation in civil society institutions, revealing the challenges that limit
their participation in these institutions, identifying possible differences
between the attitudes of these youth depending on the variables of gender,
age group, governorate and College, in addition to identifying the difference
in the challenges that limit their participation in civil society institutions
depending on the study variables represented by gender, age group,
governorate and college .
This study belongs to the descriptive analytical studies and adopted the social
survey methodology by sample using the questionnaire as a tool for data
collection, and the study sample consisted of undergraduate students at Sultan
Qaboos University across its nine colleges, who were enrolled in the spring
2023 semester. The total number of students was (13,139), and the sample
was selected using stratified random sampling, and due to the variation in the
numbers of students in different colleges, the proportional distribution was
used in the selection of partial samples from colleges to be proportional to
their weight relative to the total the minimum sample size was set at (310)
students.
The study reached a set of results, the most important of which was that the
participation of university youth in civil society institutions contributes to the
formation of various social relationships, which achieves psychological
empowerment, and the development of their leadership and social skills, and
the results showed that the colleges where University Youth Study have a role
in enhancing their participation in civil society institutions, and the study
highlighted a set of challenges that limit the participation of university youth
in civil society institutions, manifested in the weakness of the media
campaigns known to these institutions, the weak link between participation
in them and employment opportunities for university youth, and the absence
of a difference in their appreciation of the challenges that limit their
participation in civil society institutions, and the lack of a difference in the
degree of appreciation of the challenges that limit their participation in civil
society institutions, and the lack of These institutions depending on the
variants of study. The study came up with a set of proposals such as the
importance of rooting the developmental concept of civil society institutions,
especially among university youth, and the need for higher education
institutions to prepare plans to instill a culture of volunteerism and rooting
the developmental concept of voluntary work, especially among university
youth; to encourage them to participate in civil society institutions
effectively
