الصلابة النفسية لدى المرأة المعيلة في ضوء بعض المتغيرات الديموجرافية

Abstract EN

The current study aimed to identify the differences in psychological hardiness among the breadwinner women (widow and the prisoners’ wives) in the light of some demographic variables as dependency years, number of children, the educational level of the breadwinner woman, and the age of the breadwinner woman).

the sample consisted of 218 breadwinner woman; divided into 100 wives of prisoners and 118 widows’ woman.

there ages ranged from 25 to 50 years old the tools that used in data collection included a questionnaire for collecting primary data and psychological hardness scale for widows and wives of prisoners (prepared by researchers).

results showed that there weren’t statistically significant differences in the total score of psychological hardiness among the breadwinner woman, attributed to (number of children, the period of dependency); while there were statistically significant differences in the total degree of psychological hardiness attributed to (the educational level) in the direction of mothers with an education level above average, and there were statistically significant differences in the total degree of psychological hardness and its dimensions of commitment and control (according to the ages of the sample) toward mothers over 40 years of age, while there weren’t statistically differences between the sample in the challenge dimension.

the study recommended a set of recommendations that should be taken to improve the level of psychological hardness for the breadwinner woman.