عبدالفتاح أبو شعر

This research aims to knowing the irrational thoughts for the Palestinian universities students and its relation with some variables. The researcher adopted the analytic descriptive method that he chose a sample according to the simple random method. The sample contained 412 university students in Gaza Strip ( The Islamic -Al Azhar -Al Aqsa). The researcher used the rational and irrational thoughts test prepared by Sulaiman Al-Rihani (1487). He, also, used the religious orientation scale prepared by Abd El Rageeb El Buheiri and Adel Al-Demirdash (1982). He measured the credibility and consistency for the two scales. The main results of the study are: - The relation between the religious orientation and the irrational thoughts are contrasting, that the people who have real religious thoughts have less irrational thoughts than who have surface religious thoughts. - The male have more irrational thoughts than the female . - The junior students have irrational thoughts more than who are to graduate. - The relational and the irrational thoughts differ according to the living area for the sample members. - The individuals who have middle income have more irrational thoughts than the others (high and low income) - Al-Azhar university students have more irrational thoughts than the Islamic university ones. - There are no differences (with statistical indicates) among male and female relating to the religious orientation . - No differences (with statistical indicates) between junior and the graduating students relating to the religious orientation. - The students, living in the villages, have more religious orientation than the cities students. - The Islamic university students have more religious orientation than those of Al-Azhar and Al-Aqsa students.