التحكم الذاتي لدى الطلبة الإيتام و إقرانهم العاديين في المرحلة المتوسطة

Abstract EN

The present study aims at finding out: 1- the self-control of orphan students and their ordinary peers.

2- The significance of the differences in self-control between orphan students and their ordinary peers.

3- Significance of differences in self-control according to the gender variable (male, female) of: A.

Orphan students.

B.

Ordinary students.

The study is limited to third-grade intermediate students in public schools of both genders in Baghdad of Rusafa directory (first, second, and third) (2019 -2020).

for the academic year For achieving the study's objectives the following tool is used: adopting (Tangney et al., 2004) scale of self-control, consisting of (33) items in its final form.

The Psychometric characteristics were extracted (validity and reliability).

The scale has three variants (always applies, sometimes, does not apply at all).

The researcher gave the scale to the study sample (400) male and female students, who were chosen by the random stratified method from the third-grade intermediate students, (200) orphan students, and (200) ordinary students for both genders.

After collecting and treating data statistically, the study results are as follows: 1- Orphans and ordinary students have self-control.

2- There are significant differences in self-control (orphans - ordinary) in favor of ordinary pupils.

3- There are no statistically significant differences in the self-control between the orphans and ordinary pupils according to the gender variable (males-females).

In light of the results, the two researchers came up with several suggestions and recommendations