Measuring intellectual extremism among psychological counseling students

This current research aims to identify intellectual extremism among psychological counseling students, according to the variable (gender, geographical location, academic stages), and to achieve the research objectives, the researchers built a scale of intellectual extremism consisting of (30) paragraphs in (5) areas after conducting a statistical analysis of the scale after applying it to a sample of (150) male and female students, all paragraphs of the scale were distinctive, and the psychometric characteristics of validity and reliability were conducted, and thus it became in its final form, and it was applied to a sample of psychological counseling students of (265 male and female students, with (41) male students and (84) female students from the University of Basra and (76) male students (74) female students from Al-Mustansiriya University, and the results showed that counseling students Psychologically, they are characterized by intellectual extremism, and there are statistically significant differences on the gender variable, and the difference was in favor of males at the expense of females, and there are no statistically significant differences according to the variable of educational stages.