Life Pressures Among University Professors And Their Relationship To Their Future Expectations

Abstract

  The concepts of life pressures and future expectations are among the concepts that have the most negative impact on the life of a university professor because of their negative consequences that affect mental health. Clinical psychology literature indicates that life pressures lead the individual to difficulty being able to resist physical diseases. Which may be caused by these pressures, and what individuals feel and think in the present is often shaped by how they expect their personal future, and this is what prompted the researcher to study the concepts of future expectations and life pressures among university professors. In addition to some secondary variables represented by gender, specialization, and degree, the current research aimed to identify the life pressures of university professors, as well as to identify the future expectations of university professors, in addition to identifying the nature of the correlation between life pressures and the future expectations of university professors. It also aimed to identify the significance of the differences in the correlation between life pressures and future expectations among university professors according to the following variables: A- Gender (males - females), B- Specialization (scientific - humanities), C- Degree (Master’s - Doctorate), each separately. To achieve the objectives of the research, a tool was built to measure life stress among university professors, which has the psychometric properties that must be present in psychological measures, such as factorial validity, reliability, and the ability to discriminate A second tool was adopted to measure future expectations, as these two tools were applied to a sample of (240) male and female teachers who were selected in a simple random way from the College of Science, Education, and Basic Education within the formations of Al-Mustansiriya University, and after processing the data statistically using the t-test for one sample, and the Pearson correlation coefficient  false test, It became clear that university professors suffer from life pressures, and they also appeared to have positive expectations for the future. The results also indicated a positive correlation between life pressures and future expectations, and there are no statistically significant differences in life pressures and future expectations according to the gender variable (males - females). Specialization (scientific - humanistic) and degree (Master's - PhD). The researcher presented a number of recommendations and proposals