Psychological Resilience
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The level of psychological resilience of women with breast cancer in the center of Erbil Governorate
Jeyran Sabah Abdulla, Omar Yasin Ibrahim
A recent study investigated the level of psychological resilience of women with breast cancer in the center of Erbil Governorate. It holds the following objectives: (i) to examine the prevalence level of psychological resilience among women with breast cancer. (ii) to examine the difference in the level of psychological resilience according to variables (Degree of cancer and social status). The population of the research comprises women with breast cancer in the center of Erbil governorate, the researcher selected simple random sampling, which included (225) women with breast cancer. To measure the research variable, the researcher built the scale of psychological resilience, which includes (30) items. The researcher accomplished the scale's face validity and discriminatory power and maintained all the scale items. The researcher measured the reliability through the half-segmentation method, the value was (0.77), and based on the Spearman-Brown equation the value reached (0.87). The research shows that women suffer from breast cancer because of a lack of psychological resilience. The study further demonstrates statistically significant differences in psychological resilience according to the degree of cancer. There is a statistically significant difference in psychological resilience according to the social status variable in favor of married women. Based on the current findings the researcher mentioned several necessary recommendations and suggestions.
Volume 10 · Issue 3 · September 2023Examining the indicators of the relationship between Psychological Resilience and Burnout among psychosocial counsellors who work at the prisons of the Kurdistan Region – Iraq
Karmand Aziz Ali, Izaddin Ahmad Aziz
In the initial observations of the performance of prison staff, the researchers find out that psychosocial counsellors who work at the prisons face psychological stress when dealing with prisoners. The prisoners have different characteristics and personalities from individuals outside prisons due to the nature of life and dealings inside prisons. Having stress could reflect negatively on the counsellor’s work and professional performance, which may raise the possibility of exposure to psychological pressure and loss of interest in work in general, this case may consider one of the indicators of psychological combustion. The current research aims to identify the relationship between psychological resilience and burnout among psychosocial counsellors in the Kurdistan Region prisons, the research sample was 100 counsellors, (78 males and 22 females). To measure psychological resilience Holling scale (1996) developed by Maltby (2016) that included three dimensions was used. Maslach’s (1981) scale, which included three dimensions, was used to measure burnout. To analyze the data, mean, standard deviation, Cronbach alpha, one- and two-way t-test, and Pearson's correlation coefficient was used. The results show that psychosocial counsellors have high levels of psychological resilience. However, they recorded low levels of psychological burnout. In addition, resilience and burnout significantly correlated negatively. There are insignificant differences in psychological resilience depending on gender. Yet, females recorded higher levels in the field of Emotional exhaustion for burnout than males, while the differences between males and females on depersonalization, and personal accomplishment components were insignificant.