Family Support and Its Relationship with the Level of Psychological Immunity among a Sample of High School Students at Erbil Schools
Shahzad Ramadan Hasan *
Department of General Education, College of Education, Cihan University, Erbil, Iraq.
Shilan Abdulrahman Abdulkarim
Department of English, College of Education and Languages, Lebanese French University, Erbil, Iraq.
Kholoud Saad
English Department, BAMU, India.
*Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Abstract
The current research aims to identify the level of family support and the level of psychological immunity for a sample of high school students at Erbil schools. It also aims to discern the relationship between family support and psychological immunity. In addition, it studies the significance of the differences among the research sample individuals on the family support scale and the psychological support scale according to the two research variables: (gender and academic specialization). The analytical descriptive approach is adopted. Thus, two research tools are utilized: (the family support scale and the psychological immunity scale). The research sample includes (710) male and female high school students studying at Erbil schools. The main results of the research assert a direct relationship between family support and the level of psychological immunity among the sample of the present study. Also, there are no statistical significance differences among the average scores of the research sample's responses regarding the family support scale and the psychological immunity scale according to the two variables (gender and academic specialization).
Keywords: Family support, psychological immunity, secondary school students