Intellectual Stress and its Relationship to Future Anxiety among University Students

Abstract

The current research aims to identify the correlation between the variables of intellectual stress and future anxiety among a sample of students from the College of Education for Humanities / Basra University. The research sample consisted of (150) male and female students who were randomly chosen from the Department of Psychological Guidance and Educational Guidance for the academic year (2019 - 2020), and the two measures adopted by the researcher (measure of intellectual stress, Al-Zubaidi 2015) and (future anxiety scale, Al-Budeiri 2009) were applied. After completing the psychometric properties of the two measures, they were finally applied to the research sample.  The results concluded that the research sample has intellectual stress and anxiety from the future, and that there is a statistical significance in the differences according to the gender variable in the two variables and for the benefit of males.