The Level of Psychological Hardiness and Its Relationship with Certain Academic Variables among Secondary School Students

Abstract

This study aims to examine the level of psychological hardiness and its rela-tionship with certain variables among a sample of secondary school students in Tripoli, and to explore the extent to which this level varies according to gender, specialization, and academic achievement. The researcher used the Kobasa Hardiness Scale – Arabic version translated by Imad Mukhaymar (2015) – to measure psychological hardiness. The study sample consisted of 71 students, including 33 males and 38 females. The results indicated that the level of psychological hardiness was high. No statistically significant differences were found in psychological hardiness (control – challenge – so-cial support – overall hardiness) according to gender, while statistically sig-nificant differences were observed in the commitment dimension in favor of males. Furthermore, no significant differences were found in commitment according to specialization, whereas significant differences were found in (control – challenge – social support – overall hardiness) in favor of the sci-entific specialization. The results also showed that there were no significant differences in (commitment – control – overall hardiness) according to aca-demic achievement, while significant differences were observed in (chal-lenge – social support) according to academic achievement