Emotional stability among the students of the College of Education for Pure Sciences / Ibn al-Haitham

Abstract

The emotional stability is the individual's ability to govern and control his emotions, feelings and motives and his ability to take things with patiently and reasonably and face life vividly and actively and with good behaving by being self-reliance, confident, optimistic, certain in his look to the future and compatible with others.

This research was conducted in the College of Education for Pure Sciences/ Ibn al-Haitham and aimed to identify:

1. Emotional stability level of the students of the College of Education for Pure Sciences / Ibn al-Haitham.

2. Whether there are differences in the levels of emotional stability among the students of the College of Education for Pure Sciences / Ibn al-Haitham according to the variable of gender (male, female)

By adopting the scale of the researcher (Al Jumaili 2005), which consists of 52 paragraphs, the scale is applied on a sample of (250) students, and the researcher had the validity of the scale checked asserted by (10) of experts to judge the face validity of the scale, while the reliability was checked in two ways: Test Repetition, where the correlation coefficient reached (0.92) and Internal Consistency (Cronbach's alpha), where the correlation coefficient reached (0.90).

The research found the following results:

1. The students of the College of Education for Pure Sciences / Ibn Al-Haitham are characterized by emotional stability.

2. The (male) students are more stable emotionally than the (female) students.

The research also put many recommendations and proposals in the light of the current search results.