المعنى الشخصي لدى المعلمين
Abstract
Personal meaning represents one of the variables affecting the personality and behavior of a person, his mental health and his relationships with others, which makes him an important topic for scientific research, especially among teachers in Iraqi society. Therefore, the current research seeks to identify:
- The personal meaning of teachers in the city center of Diwaniyah.
- Significance of statistical differences in the personal meaning of teachers in the city center of Diwaniyah according to the variables of sex and years of service.
In order to achieve the aimes of the research, the two researchers worked on adopting the personal meaning scale of Wong , which was approved by Odeh (2020), which consisted in its final form of 54 items, and after verifying the availability of the scale on the psychometric characteristics required to be available in psychological scales, it was applied to the research sample of (400) members , male and female teachers were chosen using the simple random sample method, and after correcting the scale forms and using the appropriate statistical methods using the statistical bag for social sciences Spss, the results of the research showed the following:
- Teachers have a personal sense.
2 . There are no statistically significant differences at the level (0.05) in the personal meaning according to the variables of gender and years of service.
In the light of the above results, the research came out with a set of recommendations and proposals. Among the recommendations, the researchers recommended the need to pay attention and continue to develop personal meaning and enhance its various sources among teachers in a way that enhances their role and educational career, as well as carrying out counseling and professional courses in the educational sector that emphasize the importance of personal meaning and the
dangers of missing it. Among the proposals, the two researchers suggested the importance of studying personal meaning in its relationship to other variables, including: job satisfaction, successful aging and coping efficiency.
