Achievement Motivation and Its Relationship to the Psychological Stress among the Preparatory School Students
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The current paper aims at identifying the achievement motivation and its relationship to the psychological stress among the preparatory school students in Kalar district, Sulaymaniyah Governorate. It also aims at determining the statistically significant differences according to the variables of gender and specialization (scientific, literary). The researcher used the descriptive correlational approach in his paper due to its suitability for the nature of this study. The sample of this paper consisted of (400) male and female preparatory school students. The researcher prepared an achievement motivation scale, which consists of three dimensions (feeling of responsibility, perseverance, future planning), and also used the Al-Ja'afra (2016) scale for psychological stress to achieve the paper objectives. The psychometric properties of validity and reliability were extracted using statistical methods, including (Pearson correlation coefficient, chi-square, one-sample t-test, independent samples t-test). The conclusion showed a statistically significant difference in achievement motivation and psychological stress among the sample members, in addition to a statistically significant difference between males and females based on the variables of gender and specialization, with a correlational relationship between achievement motivation and psychological stress.
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