التفاؤل وعلاقته بالتوجه نحو الحياة لدى طالبات كلية التربية للبنات

Abstract

The goal of this study is to investigate the relationship between optimism and life orientation for a subject of female students in the collage of education for women including the first and fourth stage students ,the sample contained (319) students ,(153)of them were a first stagers ,(166) of them were at the fourth stage.

The scale of optimism was built according to a questionnaire pointed to a sample of the students, adding to that reviewing a number of previous scales & studies which was about the same topic.

For the life orientation scale the researcher used a scale built by Scheier & Carver 1985 – translated and adjusted by Al_ansari 1998 –.

The final results showed that there was a significant relation between the optimism and life orientation for a number of students above the average count of society, also results showed that there were no differences in optimism between the fist and the fourth grade students, but presence of significant differences in their life orientation in favor of the fourth grade students.