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University of Anbar - College of Education for Humanities
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University of Anbar –College of Education for Humanities
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Document Type : Research Paper
Abstract
The current research aims to identify the preventive coping among university students according to some demographic variables, and to achieve this, the researcher adopted the Greenglass, Schwarzer & Taubert scale, which consists of (10) paragraphs with five alternatives. The researcher applied the scale to a random sample consisting of ( 300 male and female university students to verify the psychometric properties of the measures of honesty, where the stability of the measure of preventive Coping in the re-test method was (0.84), and by the Alpha Cronbach method (0.81). Then the researcher applied the scale to a sample of (200) male and female university students for the purpose of extracting the results using the statistical package (SPSS) represented by the t-test for one sample and two independent samples, Pearson correlation coefficient and Alpha Cronbach equation for internal consistency. The research found that university students enjoy a high level of preventive Coping. And that there are differences in Coping according to the variable of sex and in favor of females, and there are no statistically significant differences in the preventive Coping according to the variable of specialization. The researcher recommended the need to focus on the role of families and educational institutions, the need to support the individual's self-confidence, and motivate him. He suggested a number of proposals, including conducting studies on preventive Coping and its relationship to some variables such as motivation, life satisfaction, and emotional intelligence.
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