Self-compassion and its relationship to psychological adjustment among secondary school students for the academic

Abstract

The current research aims to identify:-

1 Self –compassion among secondary school students.

2 Psychological adjustment among secondary school students

3 The correlations between self –kindness and psychological compatibility among secondary school.

To achieve the objectives of the research, the researchers adopted the self-empathy scale for (Neef ,2003) who relied on her theory and identified her six domains and the scale consisted of 26 items and each items has five graded alternatives ( applies to me always , applies to me sometimes , applies to me rarely ,doesn’t apply to me )

Building the psychological compatibility scale based on ( Carl Rogers ) theory , whose items consisted of 20 items and in front of each items three alternatives ( It always happens to me , it happens to me sometimes , it doesn’t happen to me ) The research applied the two scales to the research sample of (200) students from the secondary stage selected randomly from the research population of ( 10,968 ) students

To achieve the objectives of the research, the researchers used statically means and after analyzing the data statistically the current research reached to following results       

1. Secondary students have self- compassion.
2. Psychological condition for the group of this research is good.
3. There is a good correlation between self – compassion and psychological condition.

In the light of those result a number of suggestion and recommendation were given.