CAUSAL PREDICTION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN POST-TRAUMATIC STRESS AND BOTH PSYCHOLOGICAL STRESS AND SELF-ESTEEM A SAMPLE OF PEOPLE WITH PHYSICAL DISABILITIES IN THI QAR GOVERNORATE

Abstract

The study to identifying psychological stress and self-esteem in predicting post-traumatic development, this study aimed to determine the relationship between post-traumatic development and psychological stress and self-esteem in a sample of people with physical disabilities inThi Qar governorate. Differences between these variables are known to be due to gender (males, females). The study sample comprised (140) secondary school students with physical disabilities from the governorate of Thi Qar (fractures, amputations, burns, paralysis). The Post-Traumatic Growth Scale, Stress Scale, and Self-Esteem Scale were the instruments employed for this purpose after appropriate statistical techniques were applied to confirm their psychometric properties (honesty, stability) on a survey sample similar to the basic sample. The study found a positive relationship between sample members' self-esteem and posttraumatic stress development, and a negative relationship between posttraumatic stress growth and stress. The study also discovered statistically significant gender-related variations in these variables, with male students demonstrating stronger post-traumatic stress growth and self-esteem than female students and female students demonstrating more stress. Additionally, variance analysis demonstrated that gender and self-esteem both positively influence the likelihood of post-traumatic growth.