اضطراب ما بعد الضغوط الصدمية و علاقته بالضبط الذاتي لدى طلبة الجامعة

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The traumatic events are considered as a main cause for posttraumatic stress disorder PTSD, e.g., dangerous situations that fall out of ordinary humanistic experience.

These traumatic events causes a violent reaction on almost all persons, and who exposed to these events will need a huge efforts and a long period of rehabilitation.

The traumas and/or the traumatic events deals with violence among persons, sexual abuse or life threatening, physical injury and severe psychological lose, facing individuals and groups with more demands than their actual capabilities, that makes them suffer from this disorder and to be difficult for readjustment.

The self-control concept have been explained by social-learning scientist, whom considered that every single person have an instinct aptitude for logical thinking and to be able to control self themselves.

The consciousness is a part of self-control and self-talk, and reinforcement, w2hich is considered as one of the basic influencing factors on behavior beginning with reorganizing the perceptual field, by organizing thoughts related with relationship between events and different environmental effects, i.e., cognitive representation of behavior outcomes, which is considered in return as one of the psychological health phases that is reflected from person's self-control in facing the surrounding conditions which represents his ability to make decisions, that is base on person's dependency on his knowledge and his emotional freedom and resistance, and his ability to execute these decisions and changing his behavior.

This research was aimed to recognize the correlation between posttraumatic stress disorder and self-control among University of Baghdad's students.

The sample was consisted of (200) students (110 males & 90 females).

Two scales have been used, Al-Kubaisy (1998) to recognize Posttraumatic stress disorder, and Al-Khafajy (2001) to recognize selfcontrol.

The research outcomes were as follows: 1.

It was found that (85.1%) of the sample have mild PTSD and (14.9%) have moderate PTSD.

As per the period of the disorder, (58%) of the sample was suffering from acute PTSD and (11.3%) was suffering from chronic PTSD, and (6.7%) was suffering from delayed PTSD.

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It was found that (11.8%) of the students having well selfcontrol, and the rest of the sample (88.2%) having no ordinary self-control.

Significant negative correlation was found between PTSD and self-control, the correlation coefficient was (-0.85) at confidence level (p < 0.01) with df = 193.

The research was produced some suggestions and recommendations; e.g., opening a training courses for the students to train them on treatment strategies of PTSD, such as social-behavioral therapy and cognitive-behavioral therapy and to develop self-control among students who have low self-control by taking the adequate procedures to make them more reactive in facing different life events and overcome its consequences.

The research was suggested studying each type of traumatic events for the disorder to find out the differences between the major symptoms and the co-morbid symptoms to facilitate treatment progress.