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Psychology in Morocco: Problems, Challenges and bets
El Rhali Aharchaou
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What are the characteristics of psychology in Morocco? What are its subjective and objective constraints? To what extent does the dominant sociocultural model makes it possible to invest the results of this psychology in the different sectors? We will try to answer these questions by addressing the following three fundamental problems: First, the problem of history and identity, secondly the problem of creativity and production, and finally the problem of investment and use.
Keywords: psychology in Morocco; problem of history and identity; problem of production and creativity
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Happiness rates and its association with well-being and religiosity in a sample of university students from Morocco
Ahmed M. Abdel-Khalek, Mohammed El-Mir & Abdellah El Idrissi
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The Arabic research project entitled “Happiness rate and its relation to well-being (WB) and religiosity” was carried out on samples of university students from 14 Arab countries. The aim of this project was to explore happiness rate and its relation to WB variables (rating scales of physical health, mental health, happiness, and satisfaction) as well as religiosity. The present study recruited a sample of male (n = 156) and female (n = 234) university students from Morocco. Results indicated the mediocre rate of happiness of the present sample within the other Arab countries. There were no sex-related differences except on the self-rating scale of mental health in favor of men. All the Pearson correlation coefficients between the study scales were statistically significant and positive in both sexes. Principal components analysis disclosed a high-loaded component and labeled “Well-being and religiosity”. It was concluded that those who consider themselves as happy and in good physical and mental health were more religious. Clinicians may use this finding in counseling and psychotherapy.
Keywords: happiness; well-being; health; religiosity; Morocco
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Happiness and its relationship with well-being and religiosity among a sample of college students from Palestine
Ahmed M. Abdel-Khalek, Taisir Abdallah & Nahida Al-Arja
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The main objective of this study was to investigate rates of happiness and it’s associations with well-being and religiosity among a sample of Palestinian college students (N = 385). They responded to the Arabic Scale of Happiness (ASH), well-being rating scales of physical health, mental health, happiness, and satisfaction with life, as well as religiosity. Results indicated that men obtained statistically significant higher mean scores on happiness and mental health than did their female counterparts. Women obtained a significantly higher mean score on religiosity than did their male peers. All the Pearson correlation coefficients, except two, were statistically significant and positive between the study scales. A principal component analysis retained two factors in men and labeled “Well-being and mental health”, and “Religiosity and physical health”. Among women, one factor was extracted and labeled” Well – being and religiosity”. Based on the responses of the present sample, it was concluded that persons consider themselves as happy are more religious, particularly women.
Keywords: happiness; well-being; satisfaction with life; religiosity; Palestine
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Standardization of the resilience scale in theAlgerian society
Bashir Maamria
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Since the 1980s and 1990s, the psychological research on stress has begun to focus on the positive aspects of personality related to mental health, and examined the factors that help individuals to cope with the different situations they face in their everyday life. Then appears the term “mitigated” or “modulated” variables that refers to psychological and social variables, such as resilience that reduces stress when we receive shocks of life. Susan Kobasa, the first psychologist that explored resilience indicated that stress research should make a shift and focus on health rather than disease. Resilience according to Kobassa is a “general belief of the individual in his efficacy and ability to use all available psychosocial resources, so as to be able to understand, explain and face effectively the events of stressful life. She indicated also that resilience consists of three dimensions, which are: 1) Commitment: a kind of psychological contract that related the individual to his goals, values and the others around him, which makes him to look at the stressful situations as bringing pleasure. 2) Control: refers to the extent to which the individual believes that he can have control over the events and take personal responsibility for what happens to him. He considers that events are dynamic and not static. It includes the ability to make decisions, the ability to interpret events, and the ability to effectively confront stress. 3) Challenge: the individual’s belief that the change in his life is an exciting and necessary opportunity for growth rather than a threat; and represents a natural aspect of life, which helps him to take initiatives, explore the environment, and to be aware of the psychological and social sources that help him to face stress effectively. The aim of this research is to standardize resilience in the Algerian environment. The standardization sample consisted of 392 individuals; 191 males, 201 females, ranging in age from 15 to 50 years. So we measured discriminant, convergent and concurrent validity and the correlations between the these three dimensions, and the coefficients were good. We evaluated reliability by test-retest and the Cronbach’s alpha coefficient, and all were good.
Keywords: scale; standardization; resilience; positive psychology
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Reading and phonologico-morphological characteristics of Arabic: a comparative study of good readers and dyslexics
Mohamed Naciri & Mohammed El-Mir
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Reading is one of the main school competencies which its learning is determinant for school success; in addition to social, professional and cultural integration. However, its learning process may be hampered by many difficulties and disorders, particularly dyslexia. The characteristics of Arabic, particularly phonologico-morphological ones, that differentiated it from other languages, influence the process of learning to read in Arabic, as well as reading disorders such as dyslexia. Although dyslexia is a neurodevelopmental disorder determined by clear symptoms, and is caused by univerasl biological origins; the phonologico-morphological characteristics could facilitate or complicate reading performance, and then deepning dyslexia disorder. The current study aimed to explore the effect of phonologico-morphological characteristics on reading and dyslexia in 20 dyslexics and 20 good readers. The results showed that phonologico-morphological characteristics affected reading and dyslexia.
Keywords: reading; dyslexia; phonological awareness; morphological awareness
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The habits of mind in relation to skills of effective reading among students of Palestinian universities in Tulkarm governorate
Ziad Barakat
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This study aimed to identify the habits of mind and its relationships with skills of effective reading among the students of Palestinian universities in Tulkarm governorate. For this purpose, a random sample (423) students was selected according to sex and branch variables. Two measures were applied: Costa & Kallick (2006) Mind Habits Scale, and the Effective Reading Skills scale. The results of the study showed that the level of the arithmetic averages of the responses of the study members to the habits of mind and effective reading skills was high, whether in the different fields or the whole average. The data indicated also positive and significant correlation between the habits of mind and active reading. On the other hand, the results showed that there were no statistically significant differences in the level of mind habits and active reading skills according to gender and branch variables. In the light of these findings and their discussion, we proposed some recommendations, such as the need to pay attention to the planning and implementation of courses using the skills and strategies of effective reading and mental habits. In addition to review the planning and organization of the contents of national educational curriculum at various stages so to include educational activities and tasks for the development of mental habits and effective reading skills.
Keywords: mind habits; effective Reading Skills; university students
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The role of physical education in the psychosocial development in primary schools through teachers’ representations.
Sana Abidi & Ahmed Fellouh
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Despite the importance of physical education in primary school as a pedagogical tool that boosted the psychosocial development of the child, and improve his individual and collective skills, the reality of the exercise of Physical education in primary schools does not meet its right due to several considerations. In this work based on case studies we have tried to analyze the content of non-directed interviews to determine the reality of physical education exercise in primary schools. The cases were picked from five primary schools in Sidi Marouane, Mila. The results of the interview analysis focused on five main dimensions: (1) Physical education is necessary for the child. (2) The psychological and physical state of the child during the exercise of physical education. (3) The place of physical education among primary school curriculum. (4) Lack of the means to practice physical education and the incompatibility of its application with the school curriculum. (5) Official´s Lack of interest for physical education in the primary school. The results showed the importance of physical education in the development of children; and they asserted that it contribute to the interaction between pupils
Keywords: representation; teacher; physical education; primary school; content analysis
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Leadership pattern among secondary education principals and its relation to motivation for achievemet in high school teachers in light of the model of Bass and Avolio
Abdelkarim Salhi
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The main goal of this study is to uncover the dominant leadership pattern among secondary education principals from the point view of teachers in light of the model of “Bass and Avolio” in some high schools in the state of Medea. This research also aimed to determine the nature of the relationship and its significance between the leadership style of principals and the motivation for achievement in teachers. This study was conducted on a random sample of 200 professors, based on the descriptive approach. In order to test the hypotheses, the researcher relied on two tools: “Multi-Factor Leadership Scale” developed by Bass and Avolio after it was translated from its original language (English) into Arabic, in addition to the scale of motivation for achievement elaborated by the researcher. The results showed that the predominant leadership pattern according to the Bass and Afolio model in the study sample is Transfer Model, it appears also that thare is a correlative relationship between the patterns of leadership (transformational, reciprocal, pervasive) and motivation for achievement among teachers of secondary education.
Keywords: leadership pattern; transformational leadership; achievement motivation
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The Development of Moral thinking in Moroccan secondary students
Rajae Haouideg
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This research tends to investigate the development of moral thinking of Moroccan students. The targeted population includes 217 males and females. The theory used to this research is Lawrence Kohlberg theory of moral thinking development, which was measured by Lambert scale. A descriptive correlational design was used in this study. The analysis techniques used include “student’s test”, “Anova-1” and “Pearson R” measurements. The findings of this study revealed that the development of moral thinking of students correlates with the third phase of Lambert’s sixth stages of moral thinking, which is compliance with community standards. In addition, it was found that there are differences in the development of moral thinking according to age, sex, educational stages and branch.
Keywords: moral thinking; students; high schools
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Theoretical currents in values building education: Analytical-critical approach
Mohammed Lahboub
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This article analyses and criticizes three theoretical currents dealing with values-building education: the traditionalist current, the modernist current and the Syncretism one. In this respect, the present article investigates their foundations. Also their values as well as their principles. It also tries to reveal their limitations and inabilities. In fact, there is no theoretical current in values building education, despite its foundations strength and its principles coherence, which has no limitations and inabilities, no matter how it responds to the challenges of educational, political and social reality. These limitations and inabilities are essentially due to the dynamic and complex nature of contemporary human societies especially their references based on pluralism, cultural diversity, and challenges of values differences.
Keywords: education; values; theoretical courants
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The reality of the psychological practice of the clinical psychologist -between his professional role and the conditions of reality
Nafissa Mansouri & Amina Lassar
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This study explored the reality of the psychological practice of the clinical psychologist between his professional role and the conditions of reality .The researchers relied on theoretical approaches and previous studies to design a questionnaire that measures the perceptions of the psychologist in the hospital. The sample comprised 20 clinical psychologists at the university hospital of Oran, who differ in the following characteristics: (professional experience – type of university training – professional status). The results showed that the clinical psychologist faces several difficulties related to the hospital climate and the working environment; and also has difficulty in performing his professional role in inappropriate working conditions. The data revealed also differences in psychological practice, which is related to the years of experience and the type of university training (training system: LMD and classical), as well as professional status (permanent psychologist vs contract psychologist).
Keywords: psychological practice; clinical psychologist; professional role; Hospital
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Traumatic events resulting from the Israeli violations and their relation to the aggressive behavior of high school students in Bethlehem
Nida Mazin Awad, Omar Taleb Rimawi & Caesar Nour Hakim
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The study aimed to identify the traumatic events resulting from the Israeli violations and their relation to the aggressive behavior of high school students in Bethlehem for the variables of gender, residency area and current class. The study sample consisted of (400) students. For this study Traumatic Events Scale (Alwan and Saleh, 2005) and Aggressive Behavior Scale (Abdel Hafeth, 2015) were used. The results showed that there is a positive correlation between the traumatic events caused by Israeli violations and the aggressive behavior of high school students in Bethlehem. Differences were found in gender variable in favor of males, and in the variable of residency area differences between village and city residents were in favor of village residents, and between camp and city residents for camp residents. And for the current grade variable, differences in media were in favor of eleventh grade. In the area of loss the differences were in favor of the twelfth grade. The results showed differences in aggression directed against others for the gender variable; these differences were in favor of males. And for the residency area variable in favor of the city. While there were no differences in the variable of current class.
Keywords: traumatic events; Israeli violations; aggressive behavior; high school students
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Troubling questions of the child with cancer during the pathological process and the role of the psycho-oncologist
Aicha Ziani
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Child with cancer suffers from physical, psycholsocial changes, that are produced by the different stages of the disease process of cancer, from diagnosis to the palliative stage when the cancer exacerbated in some cases. When the child with cancer faces these difficult situations, he suffer from physical and psychological vulnerability that renforced his dead threat. These situations produced also troubling questions that unveil a profound distress that necessitate the intervention of the psychologist in order to reduce its effects and crubing its development that weakens the child resources and its adaptive abilities to cope with the disease and its treatment.
Keywords: child; cancer; troubling questions; psycho-oncologist
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Manifestations of job satisfaction among employees in the department of human resources in the Ministry of Education
Ahmed EL Haddadi
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The study aimed at measuring the job satisfaction level among a sample of employees in the Human Resources division in the Ministry of National Education, in addition to identifying its sources and exploring the differences in job satisfaction based on gender, age and experience. The Minnesota satisfaction questionnaire was used on a sample of 120 employees. The results asserted that participants enjoy an average level of job satisfaction. Their satisfaction comes from intrinsic factors. Significant statistical differences are found between the employees on the level of job satisfaction due to sex, age and experience. Our results were discussed in the light of the previous results.
Keywords: job satisfaction; Minnesota Satisfaction Questionnaire; department of human resources; ministry of Education
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A Comparative psychosocial approach to the legends of marriageamong Maghreb’s women
Karima Allegue
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This study examined marriage myths among Maghreb’s women; specially two well-known myths in Algeria and Morocco; the myth of « Kessabah» in the region of Mostaganem in Algeria, and the myth of «Lala Aïcha Al- Bahriah» in Azmour in Morocco. The two myths become rituals of bringing luck and marriage to the spinster women or who are late in marriage. We used the comparative psychosocial approach and the content analysis in the exploration of the two marriage myths and their rituals; which permit us to compare them with each other, and determine similarities and differences between them.
The results revealed the impact of the belief in resolving the delay of marriage in the Maghreb’s mentality, in addition to a great similarity between the goal of the two rituals. Although there were some simple differences.
So, the rituals are social solutions invented by women to justify their spinsterhood or late marriage.
Keywords: legends of marriage; Maghreb women; Kessabah; Lala Aïch Al- Bahriah
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The importance of practical significance styles in regulating results and conclusions of psychological and educational research
Abdelheq Behache
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This study aimed to unwrap the effect size (practical significance) as a complementary method in examining hypotheses by clarifying some statistical indicators that are used in order to indicate the value of the effect Size. It also focused on presenting the concept of effect size and its importance in covering the shortcomings of research hypotheses due to the reliance on classical statistical significance methods; as well as its role in rationalizing the results and conclusions related to research hypotheses in general. This study aimed also to compare practical significance and statistical significance methods, in order to clarify these concepts. This is for asserting the importance of each significance separately on one hand; and to encourage researchers in education and psychology to combine the concepts of statistical significance and practical significance in their future works.
Keywords: statistical significance; practical significance; psychological research; Educational research
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Relationship between schizotypy and creativity in a group of Tunisian artists
Mohamed Aymen Lahmar & Anwar Mechri
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A close relationship between psychopathology and creativity has been suggested. Our objective was to explore the relationship between schizotypy and creativity in a group of Tunisian artists. A cross sectional study was conducted on 45 artists, novelists, poets, painters, and directors (33 males and 12 females, mean age: 53.2 ± 10.2 years). Each artist took the schizotypal personality questionnaire and the seventh task of the Torrance test of creative thinking. The relationship between schizotypy and creativity was characterized by the existence of two phases: for creativity scores ≤30, there was a positive correlation between creativity and disorganized dimension of schizotypy (rs=0.39; p=0.03). Beyond this score of 30, we found a negative correlation between total scores of creativity and the negative dimension of schizotypy (rs=-0.72, p=0.008). Our results suggest the existence of a complex relationship between schizotypy and creativity. This relationship is not linear and probably obeys a “law of threshold”. However, establishing a correlation between schizotypy and creativity would better explain the relationship between mental illness and creativity.
Keywords: schizotypy; creativity; artists, schizotypal personality questionnaire; Torrance test of creative thinking
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Burnout: Diagnostic and therapeutic issues
Khadija Zaidi
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Burnout is a state of chronic physical and psychological exhaustion linked to a tense workplace. This can lead to an accumulation of stress, frustration and even depression. Clinically, this syndrome consistes of progressively evolving tripod phase: emotional exhaustion, depersonalisation and reduction of self personal accomplishment. The intensity of these three symptoms is proportional to the burnout degree. As for the characteristics of the person victim of the burnout, we can find low self esteem, perfectionism and intolerance of failure. Which leads straight to the burn-out. So, we are faced with a real disease that needs effective treatment.
Keywords: burnout; workplace; emotional exhaustion
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