The level of self-control among secondary school students In Douma

Abstract

The research aims to know: 1- Self-control for secondary school students in Douma.2- Differences in self-control according to the variables (gender, academic specialization, parents ’academic level)The current research is limited to high school students (general and vocational), tenth grade in the Douma area of Damascus countryside for the academic year 2019/2020 The researcher relied in her study on the instrument of self-control, which was translated and Arabized by the researcher (Baumsetter, Tangni, Bonn, 2004) Psychometric properties were extracted from honesty and reliability. As for the statistical means, the researcher used the program of the Statistical Bag for Psychological and Social Sciences (spss) in data processing and showed the following results:1- High school students / tenth grade students enjoy a high level of self-control.2- There are statistically significant differences in favor of females according to the gender variable of the sample members.3- There are statistically significant differences in favor of high school according to the variable of specialization among the sample members4- There are no statistically significant differences according to the variable of the academic level of the parents of the sample members.Key words: self-control