The relative contribution of existential intelligence and positive thinking in Post-traumatic growth among university students

Authors

  • Soma Ahmed Mohamed El-Hadary College of Humanities, Al-Azhar University in Cairo, Egypt.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.61856/ijhss.v1i01.16

Keywords:

Existential intelligence, positive thinking, post-traumatic growth

Abstract

 The aim of the current study is to reveal the relative of the contribution of existential intelligence and positive thinking in post-traumatic growth. The research sample consisted of (400) university students, who were applied to the Existential Intelligence Scale (Al-Obaidi, 2016), and the Positive Thinking Scale (Ibrahim, 2008). and the post-traumatic growth scale prepared by (the researcher), The descriptive correlation method was used, and the results indicated that there is a positive, statistically significant correlation at the level of significance (0.01, and 0.05) between existential intelligence, positive thinking and post-traumatic growth, The results also indicated the significant contribution of existential intelligence (0.43) and positive thinking (0.41) in predicting Post-traumatic growth.

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01/15/2023

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Soma Ahmed Mohamed El-Hadary. (2023). The relative contribution of existential intelligence and positive thinking in Post-traumatic growth among university students. Innovations Journal of Humanities and Social Studies, 1(01). https://doi.org/10.61856/ijhss.v1i01.16

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