مستويات الفراغ الوجودي لدى الأدباء في إقليم كردستان-العراق

Abstract EN

The Existential Vacuum is one of the modern concepts in the Existential Psychology.

It was basically suggested by Viktor Frankl who defined it as a negative mental state in which the person feels meaninglessness, emptiness and distress due to inability to acquire enough meanings to resist the boredom and despair.

In the stream of the life, the person usually confronts a lot of obstacles and difficulties that may hinder him to move forward in constructing his entity.

Then, success may be his ally; if he tries to find a meaning from this suffering.

Otherwise he shall fail to develop such a meaning, which leads him eventually to feel frustrated with an extended Existential Vacuum.

Measuring the levels of Existential Vacuum of the Kurdish writer is an attempt to get into this category in order to know this vacuum, which, according to developments in mental health and theories of Existential Psychology, causes a state of despair and boredom in life.

Many studies have shown the importance of this variable in the psychological construction of individuals.

The current study is relevant to reaching the following specific goals among Kurdish writers: 1 - Measuring the levels of Existential Vacuum, and the identification of statistical significance according to the hypothesis.

2 - Measuring differences in the Existential Vacuum, by age and conservation.

In order to reach these goals, the researcher prepared a tool for existential emptiness through his review of the psychological literature and standards that were tested in this field.

The sample of the study reached (159) individuals among the Kurdish writers belonging to the branches of the three governorates (Dahuk, Erbil and Sulaymaniyah) in Kurdistan Region-Iraq.

After checking the psychometric properties of the scale; the researcher applied them to the basic research sample, and reached the following results: 1-There are significant levels of decrease in existential space, after comparing their arithmetic mean with their hypothesis.

2 - There are no statistically significant differences in (Existential Vacuum) between the three governorates (Dohuk, Erbil and Sulaymaniyah), as well as in the age.