INTELLECTUAL EMPTINESS AND ITS RELATIONSHIP WITH THE HISTRONIC PERSONALITY OF THE POSTGRADUATE STUDENTS OF KERBALA UNIVERSITY

Abstract

The current research aims to identify the intellectual emptiness and the Histrionic personality among graduate students at the University of Karbala, the correlation between the intellectual void and the show personality, and the differences in the relationship between the intellectual emptiness and the Histrionic personality according to the variables of sex (males, females) and specialization (scientific, human), and a sample was formed.  The study of (348) graduate students at Karbala University for both sexes (male - female), and for both majors (scientific - human), for the academic year (2020-2021) AD, and to achieve the objectives of the research, the descriptive approach was used to reveal the intellectual emptiness and its relationship  Based on Frankel's theory, the scale was composed in its final form after completing the conditions of truthfulness, constancy, discriminatory power and global analysis, from (25) paragraphs distributed into four areas: (a sense of emptiness and meaninglessness, loss of importance, purpose and value)  A sense of indifference and boredom, weak ego), alternatives to an answer (very broadly agree, highly agree, moderately agree, little agreed, absolutely disagree) and  The review personality is based on the eight criteria set by the DSM-5 guide for diagnosing the Histrionic personality, with the individual having five or more criteria, and alternatives (yes, no), then the data were analyzed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), and the results indicated that  Postgraduate students have an intellectual void, and they possess an exhibition personality, as well as the relationship between the intellectual emptiness and the Histrionic personality, a weak inverse relationship, and there are no differences between the sex (males and females) in terms of intellectual void and Histrionic personality, and also there are no differences between specialization (scientific and human)  In terms of intellectual emptiness and Histrionic personality , this study recommends working to make individuals in a state of imbalance always in searching and finding unique meanings and to always motivate them to search and investigate and keep the mind in a state of continuous contemplation and contemplation.