The Emotional Sensitivity of High Schools Students

Abstract

The emotional sensitivity is a psychological and educational problem. It has many negative consequences upon the development of the cognitive processes of the high school students (HSS), such as attention, thinking, memorization, and active learning. There are many reasons for emotional sensitivity of the HSS. Some of them are related to their adolescence stage, the number of academic tests they have to pass, the number of hours they waste in using the communication media, watching TV series which stimulate their psychological needs, the lack of counseling and guidance services at schools and homes, the security anxiety that ISIS terrorists caused to society. Those reasons have led to psychological, social and educational maladjustment, which require more than one study. The importance of this research lies in the importance of its population, sample, the emotional sensitivity variable, its scale and findings. This research aimed at identifying: