Emotional Processing and its Association with Psychological Toughness among Kindergarten Teachers in the Center of Erbil Governorate

Abstract

The research includes following aims: To examine the prevalence level of Emotional Processing and Psychological Toughness, and Investigate the differences of the Emotional Processing and  Psychological Toughness to variable of (duration of serves), and Examine the association between Emotional Processing and Psychological Toughness, The researcher has chosen the descriptive approach to uniform the nature of the research, The research population is (728) government kindergarten teachers in the General Directorate of Education in Erbil Governorate among (52) kindergartens for the academic year 2023/2024)The research Includes research (200) female teachers, the researcher chosen stratified random method for sample of the research. The researcher adopt the scale (Sanaa, 2021) to measure (Emotional Processing) and the scale (Al-Mukhaimari, 2012) to measure (Psychological Toughness), After collecting data , the researcher reached the following results: The level of Emotional Processing and Psychological Toughness among, and There is difference in the level of Emotional Processing of kindergarten teachers in the Erbil governorate center according to the variable (duration of service) and in favor of years of service (5 years and more), and in Psychological Toughness  in favor of years of service (1 year to 2 years), and There is a positive correlation between Emotional Preparation and Psychological Toughness among kindergarten teachers in the Erbil governorate.