Psychological Tension Among Students of The College of Education for Humanities In Regards to the Variables of Blood Type and Gender
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This research investigates the level of psychological tension among students of the college of Education for Humanities in the light of two variables; blood type and gender, and to reveal the relation between psychological tension and both blood type and gender. The sample comprises (719) male and female students. The subjects of the sample have respond to the research instrument (psychological tension scale) which has been prepared by the researcher. The instrument has been applied through Google Forms. As the tool was applied after verifying its validity by presenting it to a group of experts and arbitrators with specialization in educational psychology, measurement and evaluation, and the experts' agreement was approved at a rate of (80%) and above on the scale paragraphs. Alpha Cronbach was adopted to verify the stability of the scale, which reached (0.937). The researcher uses the SPSS package for social sciences which includes one-sample t-test, two independent samples t-test, Alfa-Crompakh coefficient, one-way ANOVA, and the compatibility coefficient. The results that the subjects in the sample do not have psychological tension as the level is within the normal range (slightly less than the theoretical mean of the scale). There are some differences in the tension according to blood type variable but they are not statistically significant. Female students have more tension than male. The relation between psychological tension and both variables; blood type and gender are statistically significant. The researcher set number of recommendations and suggestions in the light of the findings above.
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