Reasoning and its relationship to self-compassion in female student of kindergarten department

Abstract

The research aimed to identify reasoning and its relationship with self-compassion in female students of the kindergarten department. The researcher employed the descriptive, correlational approach as a research approach. The research sample was simple and randomly, consisting of (100) female students of the kindergarten department of the College of Basic Education of Al-Mustansiriya University. As for the research tool, it was the researcher adopted Bear’s reasoning scale (Bear, et al, 2006), translated by (Al-Behairi, 2014), and adopted the self-compassion scale prepared by Neff, 2003, translated by (Hajim, 2018), where the reasoning scale in its final form is: (39) items. As for the measure of compassion itself, in its final form, it included (26) items. The researcher verified the validity and reliability using appropriate statistical methods. After applying the two research measures to the sample members, the data was analyzed and processed statistically using the statistical program (SPSS). The results of the research are: the kindergarten female students of the kindergarten department have a high level of rationality and have an average level of self-compassion, and there is a statistically significant direct relationship between reasoning and self-compassion.