Self - Compassion and Religiosity as Predictors of Emotional Stability among University Students with Visual Disability

Document Type : Original Article

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Assistant Professor, Department of Mental Health, Faculty of Education - Alexandria University

Abstract

The research aimed at determining the proportional contribution of self - compassion and religiosity in predicting the emotional stability among university  students with visual disability, the participants consisted of (76) male and female Students with visual disability from faculty of  Education and faculty of  Arts in Alexandria University, the tools of the research included  three scales: self - compassion, religiosity, emotional stability, they were prepared by the researcher, the results showed that: there is no statistically significant effect due to gender ( male -female) and  type of  visual disability ( blind - partially Sighted )  and the interaction between them in the  emotional stability, the  self - compassion and religiosity among the university  students with visual disability, there are statistically significant  differences between the means of ranking scores of the students with  the higher and lower levels   of self - compassion on the scale of emotional stability  favoring  students  with higher level of self - compassion, there are statistically significant  differences between the means of ranking scores of the students with  the higher and lower levels   of religiosity on the scale of emotional stability  favoring  students with higher level of religiosity, there are  positive statistically significant correlations between each of   self - compassion, religiosity and emotional stability among university  students with visual disability, both self - compassion and religiosity  contribute in  predicting  emotional stability among university  students with visual disability in a statistically significant way.

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