المرونة النفسية وعلاقتها بالنقد الذاتي في ظل الأزمات التي تواجهها عينة من الأمهات المحتضنات في المملكة العربية السعودية

Abstract

The objective of the current study is to investigate the relationship between psychological resilience and self-criticism in the context of crises encountered by a sample of adoptive mothers in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The study also aimed to assess the level of psychological resilience and self-criticism, identify the most common crises faced by the sample and investigate the differences in these variables based on age, educational level, and ability to have children. The study employed a descriptive correlational comparative methodology and included a sample of 210 foster mothers.  The Psychological Resilience Scale (Abdel-Sattar, 2015) and the Self-Criticism versus Self-Comfort Scale (Sommers-Splijkerman et al., 2018), translated by the researchers, were used. The results indicated a negative correlation between psychological resilience and self-criticism, with a high level of psychological resilience and a low level of self-criticism among the sample. The study also found that health crises (physical or psychological) were the most common among the sample, with differences in psychological resilience according to age favoring those younger than fifty years old. However, no differences were found in psychological resilience based on educational level or ability to have children, or in self-criticism based on age, educational level, or ability to have children.