Psychological Science

Background:
Iraq has been subject to Man Made Disasters Experiences (beyond usual
human tolerance) the later was the Second Gulf War and the Occupation
(1)Dr Natik Al-Kubaisy: BA (Psychology), MA (Clinical Psychology), PhD Psychology.
Psychological & Educational research Centr University of Baghdad, Baghdad Iraq.
Email natikalkubaisy@yahoo.co.uk
Baraa Mohammed Hassan: BA (Psychology), MA, PhD Student, Psychological &
Educational research Centr, University of Baghdad, Baghdad Iraq.
Dr. Tarik Al Kubaisy: Medow View Independent Hospital, Dog Kennel Road,
Glenworth, Near Gainsborough,
Lincolnshire, DN21 5UD, Tel 0044 1427 666080, fax 0044 1427 666081, Email:
tarikalkubaisy@yahoo.co.uk
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(O) by the USA and “Collation forces” 2003. This was followed by the
most kinds of life threatening Stressors, including; Killing close relatives,
Imprisonment, Torture, Kidnapping, Dislocation and Immigration etc.
All sectors of the Iraqi Society have suffered the consequences of this
disastrous War. Baghdad University Population (BUP) is an example of the
sufferers.
Aims:
1. To find 0ut the most frequent who exposed to the traumatic event.
2. To find 0ut the most frequent symptoms in PTSD.
3. To screen a sample of BUP who are suffering of PTSD, most prevalent
PTSD symptoms, and most Psychological Traumatic Experiences (PTE)
encountered amongst them.
4. To find out the type of PTSD (Acute, Chronic, Delayed)
Methods:
284 population (241 females) age range (17-54 Year).They were randomly
included on the basis of willingness to consent to participate in the study.
using PTSD Scale. Diagnosis was made according to PTSD Scale based on
DSM- IV.
Results:
- 196 (69%) of the sample exposed a traumatic event.
- 174(61%) (7 male, 167 female) of the sample suffered PTSD.
- Hyper vigilance was the most prevalent symptom 196 (5 male, 191
female), followed by reliving the traumatic experiences 185 (5 male, 180
female), and avoidance 117 (5 male, 112 female).
- 32 (4 male, 28 female) of the sample suffered Acute stress. 56 (2male, 54
female) of the sample suffered Chronic PTSD, 86 (one male, 85 female) of
the sample suffered delayed PTSD.
- The most prevalent PTE were “Murder of a close relative” 158 (56%),
followed by the least prevalent “Imprisonment and participation in Violent
and /or dangerous mission”.
- 37 (13%) of the sample have experienced Multiple Traumatic
Experiences.
95 (33%) of the sample could not find an available therapist.

Which add more and more complications and stresses on society in
general and the students of university in particular because they generate
emotional responses requiring from the individual to challenge and coping
with them which make him suffer from tension , anger ,psychological and
physical fatigue ,because stress is problems and unhappy situations facing
the individual in his daily life or suddenly onset lost, lost of safety ,social
rejection and poverty .
Therefore this present study aims at:
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1. recognizing the stressful life events which the students of Baghdad
university suffering from
2. recognizing the most common stress .
3. comparing the stressful life event in sex variable
to achieve these aims , the researcher on stressful life events scale
(Abdul-Ghani 2005) to apply it on a sample consist of (106) male
and female students from university of Baghdad / ALjadryia ,and
selected (56)female and (50) male from a number of collages
randomly which divided the answers of sample according to the
stress scale in three level (low),(middle) and (high)
the number of sample within the first (law) level is (76) students and
their rate is (71.70 % ), and within the second (middle )level is (23) students
and their rate is (21.70% ) and as for the third (high) level is (7 ) students
and their rate is (6. 60 %) resulting that stress exist in all sample but they
differ by their severity and quality .
the results show that there are most common stress on the sample but
there is variance in their in their percentage for tow sex ,and they also that
there are no statistical differences between the sex for the tow sex for
stressful life events variable .
from what the researchers reached upon ,some of recommendations
and suggestions had been made.

Freud defines anxiety as a painful cmokonal .experience
which is felt when there is excitement in the internal body
organs. These excitements lead to a stat of external or internal
alert controlled by the nerves system.
.Anxiety includes body symptoms like tension of muscles
shaking, quick stress, pain of muscles and increasing nervous
tension.
Psychological anxiefty has many reasons as a result
of curbed thoughts trends and instincts …ect . this study sheds
light on one of the dangerous problems that the Iraqi people
particularly and the Arabs generally suffer from because of
wars which is anxiety an high blood pressure.pscho patheic
diseases occur to men more than women.
The study aims at measuring the degree of
anxiety. It also aims at identifying the relation ship of anxiety
with high blood pressure. Illness through a questionnaire that
measures the anxiety of ill and healthy selected people.
To assert the aim of the study the connection factor and –
T- test were used as statistical ,treatment .The result shows
that anxiety of healthy people is less than the ill who suffer
from high blood pressure. This proves that there is disparity of
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statistical science between the samples the ill and the hearty
ones.
The study also reflects that high anxiety is related to high
blood pressure .

This Study aims at recognizing the psychological effects of violence
events on colleges students by affirming the following hypotheses:
1. There are no psychological effects with the colleges students.
2. There are no statistical differences in the psychological effects of the
violence events with the colleges students according to sex variable.
To test the hypotheses of the study the researcher has been built a tool
for measurement knowing by the scale if psychological effects of the
violence event according to behavioral theory (400) male and female
students had been slecteted randomly from Baghdad University and from
the Science Colleges , Science College from Women Physical Education
College, Education College from Women , Law College , Engineering
College, Political College and Administration and Economy College.
The researcher has been used (SPSS) program to reach the results
saying that the college students suffering from psychological effects of
violence events and there are no statistical differences according to sex
variable.

Jealousy is a big Psychological Problem wich let the envious think all
day and night wish others wealth vanishes, Thus the envious never live a
comfortable life like his mates.
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Jealousy is mentioned in the Holly Quran and the speeches of prophet
Mohammed and his Sahaba and AL-Al-bait biography . Also different
psychological and parapsycholigical studies tackled this subject .
Jealousy has been studies by the clerics theoretically they tried to find
proximities which lighten its intensity .
Psychologists conduct studies in the 18 Th century , these studies
began the foundation of British society for spiritual researches 1885 .
Some physicist tried to introduce the subject of jealousy to the lab
they in their researches to some extent . which showed brain signals and
waves coming up from the brain during jealousy wich harm the envied
person by using a glass or light in order to get the result of the P K
psychokenisis of the subject in experiment .
The research aims at studies jealousy theoretically and trying to find
ways to avoid its evil . The two researchers find presume the assure in the
heritage books related to this field , such as : What had been found in the
writing of Dr.Ali Al – Wardi about jealousy ,which he called ( al-aeneya).
Thus, the researcher find it important to study this subject in
psychology and necessity to that this problem by many psychological
methods .