PSYCHOLOGICAL ALIENATION IN A SAMPLE OF THE DISPLACED IN BAGHDAD GOVERNORATE

Abstract

The current study deals with an important concept in psychology, which waspsychological alienation,  the research community consisted of (39,653) displaced persons The final sample of research, amounting to (399), male and female, was selected randomly. It includes both sexes (males and females). The aim of the research was to identify the level of psychological alienation among the displaced in Baghdad governorate, and identifying the level of psychological alienation among the displaced according to the gender variable (male - female), to achieve the objectives of the research, the researcher adopted a scale Karmash(2016) for psychological alienation It consists of (30) paragraphs. The standard properties of the scale were calculated with validity and reliability,as indicators of honesty were represented in two ways, namely, the outward truthfulness. The construction and the stability of the scale were approved by two methods of re-application and the half-segmentation method. The two researchers applied the scale on the research sample and after collecting the data and treating it statistically by using the statistical package (SPSS).The researchers concluded that the displaced suffer from feelings of psychological alienation to a high degree, there are differences between the level of psychological alienation between the sexes (males - females) in favor of males.