Self-Forgiveness and Its Relation to the Psychological Resilience of University Students

Dr. Layth Mohammed Ayyash

Abstract: The current research aims at identifying the self-forgiveness of university students, the psychological flexibility of university students, finding the significance of the differences in the degree of self-forgiveness in the study sample by (Gender, grade level), finding differences in the degree of flexibility in the research sample (gender, grade) and the relationship between self-forgiveness and psychological flexibility among university students. The current research sample was selected from the University of Baghdad for the academic year 2016-2017 and 400 students, Of the university students first and fourth grade. The self-forgiveness (HFS) scale in English was translated from the researcher & #039, s design (Thompson et al. (2005) and extracted the validity of the construction and stability and the number of paragraphs of the scale in its final form (17) paragraph. And the adoption of the Shaqura scale (2015) of psychological flexibility has been extracted the strength of discriminatory paragraphs and the validity of the content and honesty of the building was extracted stability and The scale shall be in its final form (41) paragraphs. The findings of the research that the sample of research have self-forgiveness, psychological flexibility and there are no significant differences in statistical flexibility, as well as in psychological flexibility found significant differences in sex and in favor of males in psychological flexibility, and There were significant differences in sex and in favor of males in psychological flexibility, and there is a strong relationship between self-forgiveness and psychological flexibility. The researcher concluded that university students have self-forgiveness and self-esteem and is represented in three elements (wrong work, negative feelings caused by error, self acceptance internally). And that their relationship is characterized by love and confidence despite the pressures of the trick and the many shocks in Iraqi society. And most important recommendations Enhance the positive side of self-forgiveness and psychological flexibility. And the most important proposals to conduct surges dealing with the variables with other variables such as mental health, anti-social behavior.

Keywords: self-forgiveness

Edition: Volume 7 Issue 1, January 2018,

Pages: 2044 - 2053