The Relationship between the professional identity crisis and the academic adjustment of social work students

Abstract

This study aims at determining the relationship between professional identity crisis and the academic adjustment of social work students. It also aims to identify the indicators of the social worker's roles in enhancing the professional identity and academic adjustment of students. We selected simple random sample of 340 students from grade 3 and4 involving 86 males and 254 females.The study concludes that there is an inverse correlation concerning statistical significance between professional identity crisis and academic adjustment of social work students, at a significance level of 0.01. There is a positive correlation between the professional identity crisis, academic adjustment and some demographic variables for students of social work at a significance level of 0.05. There are statistically significant differences at 0.01 between males and females on the professional identity crisis scale in favor of females with a mean of (2.7333 in its total dimensions.