الخوف من استقبال التعاطف من الآخرين كمنبئ بصعوبات تنظيم الانفعال و الأعراض الاكتئابية لدى طلبة الجامعة المكفوفين

Abstract EN

The study aimed to explore the level of fear of receiving compassion from others among blind students at universities according to gender and to investigate the possibility of prediction of difficulties in emotion regulation and depressive symptoms from Fear of receiving compassion from others.

The participants were (85 students; 48 males and 37 females.

Age: 18-29 years, M = 22.

97, SD = 3.05.

They were randomly selected from King Saud University, King Khalid University, Jazan University, and Taif University.

The study used fear of receiving compassion from others scale (prepared by the researcher), difficulties in emotion regulation scale (Kaufman, et al., 2016: translated by the researcher), and the multidimensional child and Adolescent depression Scale (prepared by Abdel-Khalek (2003).

The results showed that the level of fear of receiving compassion from others was high among the study sample.

In addition, it indicated that there were significant differences between males and females in fear of receiving compassion from others in favor females, as well as fear of receiving compassion from others explained (33.4%) of the variation in difficulties in emotion regulation and fear of receiving compassion from others explained (43.8%) of the variation in depressive symptoms