الصلابة النفسية لدى منتسبات الجامعة و علاقتها ببعض المتغيرات

Abstract EN

The concept of psychological hardiness is presented by the American psychologist (Kobasa) 1979; she defined it as It is a mixture of an individual’s beliefs about himself and the individual’s way of looking at the world around him, it consisting of three dimensions: control, commitment, and challenge.

The current research aims mainly to measure the psychological hardiness of female members in the university community, as well as other goals related to the nature of the difference in psychological hardiness according to a number of demographic variables such as job (teaching, employee), and the variable of specialization (scientific, human) with regard to the category of teaching, The current research determined a sample from Baghdad University , consist of (200) affiliates, chosen randomly according to the variables above; To achieve the goals of the research, the researcher built a scale to measure psychological hardness, his psychological characteristics were verified and he settled on (30) items, to which he is answered with a graded scale of (3) points.

After analyzing the data using the appropriate statistical means, the research reached the following results: 1.

There is a high level of psychological hardiness for the whole sample.

2.

There is a high level of psychological hardiness among the teaching sample in general, regardless of the variable of specialization.

3.

There is no statistically significant difference in psychological hardiness between those with a scientific and human specialization from female teachers in the research sample.

4.

There is a high level of psychological hardiness among the female staff sample.

5.

There is no significant difference in psychological hardiness according to the variable of the position (teachers, employees).

In the light of the results obtained here, a number of recommendations and proposals were presented.