عدوى الانفعال و علاقتها بالشفقة على الذات لدى فاقدي الآباء

Abstract EN

The current research aims to identify the Emotional Contagion and its relationship to self pity among parents who have lost parents in private schools in orphanages in the city of Al Diwaniyah, as the number of the research sample members reached (110) male and female students who were chosen in a random manner with equal distribution, and to measure this goal a scale of emotion contagion was built Which in its final form consisted of (18) paragraphs, and the researcher also built a measure of self-pity, which in its final form consisted of (22) paragraphs.

The psychometric properties of both measures of validity and reliability were extracted, and appropriate statistical methods were used to extract the results of the current research.

The most important results of the current research indicate that those who have lost fathers have a high level of emotional contagion, and there are statistically significant differences in emotional contagion be consoled to the sex variable (males, females) and in favor of females, and the results indicated a high level of self- pity among a sample.

The research, as there are statistically significant differences in self-pity according to the gender variable (males, females) and in favor of males, and the results of the current research showed a positive correlation between both of the Emotional Contagion and self pity among the parents without parents.

The research came out with a number of recommendations and suggestions.