Psychological Energy and Its Relationship to Certain Variables Among Educational Counselors

Abstract

Psychological energy is one of the important topics that affects each of the individual’s motivations, his behavior, and the performance of his work. It is also affected by the individual’s psychological pressures, which are linked to the physiological activation system that governs the brain’s work system and how information is exchanged between the individual and the external environment, thus motivating the individual to success. Achieving goals in the case of high levels of energy, or inability and failure in the case of low levels of energy, and every individual has an effective psychological energy generator that produces a specific amount of energy with a psychological meaning that is formed according to the situation that the individual is going through and motivates him to confront the stressful situations that he is going through. Therefore, the researcher decided to study the variable of psychological energy among counselors and reveal the differences among individuals.

The goal of the current research is to identify the level of psychological energy, as well as to reveal the significance of statistical differences in the level of psychological energy according to the variable of gender (males and females), marital status, and years of service among educational counselors. The research sample consisted of (200) male and female counselors present in the General Directorate of Education. Baghdad / Al-Karkh II for the academic year (2023/2024), where the researcher built a measure of the psychological energy of educational counselors and extracted the apparent validity and reliability of the scale. The statistical data was processed using (SPSS), where the results showed that educational counselors have psychological energy, and this indicates that they love their work and accept others. They have a desire for their field of work, and counselors with more years of service have high psychological energy, and this indicates that experience has a major role in controlling the problems they are exposed to. The results showed that there are no differences in social status and indicate that counselors do not integrate their private lives and their counseling work. The research came out with many recommendations and proposals.