The Predictive Ability of Emotional Stability for Mental Fatigue among First-Year University Students
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Emotional Stability, mental fatigue, first-year students, Al-Hussein Bin Talal UniversityAbstract
Objective: The current study aimed to investigate the level of Emotional Stability and Mental Fatigue among first-year university students and to determine whether there are differences in the level of Emotional Stability attributable to the variables of gender, academic major, and the interaction between them. The research adopted a descriptive correlative approach. The study sample consisted of (336) first-year students at Al-Hussein Bin Talal University, who were chosen by the convenience sampling method.
Methods: The study used the descriptive correlational method in the research, as two scales were used, Emotional Stability scale, and Mental Fatigue scale.
Results: The findings of the study showed that the level of Emotional Stability and the level of Mental Fatigue came at a medium level. And that there are statistically significant gender differences in the level of Emotional Stability where males showed higher Emotional Stability than females. There were also statistically significant differences in the level of Emotional Stability attributable to academic majors (scientific faculties). The results also revealed statistically significant differences in the level of interaction between the variables gender and college in the level of Emotional Stability, where males in scientific colleges outperformed females while females in humanities colleges were dominant. The results also showed that Emotional Stability explained (5.2%) of Mental Fatigue.
Conclusions: Based on the results, it is recommended to include and employ aspects of Emotional Stability and methods for achieving it in academic subjects, and to encourage various extracurricular activities
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