Prevalence of Existential Vacuum of Writers in the Kurdistan region- Iraq
Öz
The
Existential Vacuum is one of the modern concepts in existential psychology. The
idea was originally suggested by Viktor Frankl, who defined it as a negative
mental state in which a person feels meaninglessness, emptiness, and distress
due to an inability to acquire sufficient meaning to resist one’s boredom and
despair. In the stream of life, a person usually confronts a lot of obstacles
and difficulties that may hinder his or her drive to move forward in
constructing his entity. Then, success may be one’s ally; if one tries to find
a meaning from this suffering. Otherwise one shall fail to develop such a
meaning, which leads him or her eventually to feel frustrated and endure an
extended existential vacuum.
Measuring
the levels of this existential vacuum in Kurdish writers is an attempt to
really understand this vacuum, which, according to new developments in the
fields of mental health and existential psychology, fosters a state of despair
and boredom in life.
Many
studies have shown the importance of this variable in the psychological
construction of individuals. The current study is integral to reaching the
following goals concerning Kurdish writers: 1) measure the prevalence of
existential vacuum and identify statistical significance according to the
hypothesis, and 2) measure the differences in existential vacuum prevalence, by
age and conservation.
To
reach these goals, this article utilizes a tool for measuring existential
emptiness created through a review of psychological literature and standards
that have been tested in this field. The study sample size reached 159 Kurdish
writers from the branches of three governorates (Dahuk, Erbil, and
Sulaymaniyah) in Iraqi Kurdistan. This paper comes to the following conclusions
by applying its psychometric measurement tool to the acquired sample: 1) there
are significant levels of decrease in existential space, after comparing their
arithmetic mean with their hypothesis, and2) there are no statistically
significant differences in existential vacuum prevalence between the three governorates
or between age groups.
Anahtar Kelimeler
References
- Adler, Alfred, (2009).The Meaning of Life, T: Adel Naguib Boshra, National Project of Translation, 2, Cairo. Al-Khailani, Kamal Mohammed Sarhan, (2013). Emotional emptiness in women with breast cancer, Journal of Educational and Psychological Sciences - Iraq, No. 99. Aladdin, Jihad Mahmoud, (2013). Theories of Psychology and Human Knowledge, Al Ahlia for Publishing and Distribution, 1, Amman. Al-Obaidi, Afra Ibrahim Khalil, (2015). Theories of cognitive and human psychological counseling, University of Baghdad - Faculty of Education for Girls. Al-Waeli, Jamila, (2012). The Meaning of Life and its Relationship to Personality Patterns (A, B) of Baghdad University Students, Journal of the Professor, No. 201, Girls College of Education, University of Baghdad. Fist, Jest & Fist, Crickey, (2007). Personality Theories, Translator: Yahya Seyyed Mohammadi, Nashr Ravan, Jab 3. Frankel, Victor, (1982). Man cearch for meaning, T: d. Talaat Mansour, 1st Floor, Dar Al Qalam, Kuwait. Frankel, Victor, (2014). The Will to meaning ... Foundations and applications of treatment in the sense, T: d. Ayman Fawzi, Zahraa Al Sharq House, Cairo. Frankl, Viktor E., (1992). Mans Search for Meaning. An Introduction To Logotherapy,4th Edition, Beacon Press 25,Boston- Massachusetts. Frankl, Factor, (1993). Physician and Ghost, translation of Farsi: d. Farrokh Seif Behzad, Dorsa Publishing House, Jab 3, Tehran. Friedman, Howard S. & Shastak, Miriam, (2013). Personal. Classical theories and modern research, T. Ahmed Ramo, Arab Organization for Translation, I 1, Beirut. Heidegger, Martin, (2012). Being and Time, d. Fathi Al-Muskini, New United Book House, 1 st, Beirut. Karen,Cohen & Cairns, David, (2010). Is Searching for Meaning in Life Associated With Reduced Subjective and Psychological Well- Being?, International Juornal of Existential Psychology & Psychotherapy,V 3,n 1,January. Kirkgord, Surin, (2013). Disease path of the dead, T: d. Osama al-Qafash, the Egyptian Book House, I 1, the omnipotent. May, Rolo & Yalom, Arvin, (1999). Introduction to existential psychotherapy, T: Dr. Adel Mustafa and Ghassan Yaqoub, Dar Al-Nahda Al Arabiya, I 1, Beirut. May, Rolo, (2014). The Art of Counselling, Souvenir Press, New York. May,Rollo, (2009).Mans Search For Himself,Norton,first published,New York. May,Rolo, (2015).The Discovery of Being,Norton & Company Ltd, London. Mohammed, Nour Jabbar, (2014). Emotional emptiness and self - transcendence and their relation to future visions of widows, PhD thesis, University of Diyala, Faculty of Education of Human Sciences, Iraq.
Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
-
Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Yousif H.salih Mostafa
This is me
Iraq
Muhammad Taha Hussein Bakr
*
This is me
0000-0002-0236-0435
Iraq
Publication Date
January 25, 2019
Submission Date
June 8, 2018
Acceptance Date
November 15, 2018
Published in Issue
Year 2019 Volume: 5 Number: 1