Gratitude and its Relationship to the Quality of Life of Members of the Teaching Staff in Secondary schools.
Abstract
This study aimed at finding out the relationship between the Gratitude and the Quality of Life among teachers in Al-Diwaniyah Governorate, gratitude can boost people's morale and help them find out some positive features in their life during the bad times. Individuals without gratitude they will lose the benefits they have got without noticing them, it does not lead them to feel the blessings in their life, it will increase their sense of deprivation, and they will feel that life has not been denoted them the benefits they deserve. The less grateful the person grows, he will feel more deprived in life. So gratitude amplifies one's life, and that the low quality of life for individuals in general indicates an inevitable decline of the level of self-esteem of the individual and his sense of lack of worthiness or personal competence, and the low level of Self efficacy. In contrast, if the teachers have got the feelings of satisfactory on the quality of their life and efficiency will make great impact on the educational process and contributes to the development of teacher responses and progress, As well as recent studies have proven a higher level of gratitude associated with lower levels of anxiety, stress, depression , high level of self-efficacy, acceptance, satisfaction and sense of quality of life. This means that gratitude and quality of life are connected positively ,then it leaves its effective impact on the members of the academic staff. The study has aimed at:
1- Measuring the feeling of gratitude of the teaching staff members in secondary schools in Al-Diwaniyah city.
2- Measuring the quality of life of the teaching staff members in secondary schools in Al-Diwaniyah city.
3- Finding out the correlation- efficient between gratitude and the quality of life of the teaching staff members in the city of Diwaniyah.
The current research has determined the teaching staff of both males and females in secondary schools In Al-Diwaniyah city as community of the study.
Concerning the theoretical framework, the researcher presented a number of theories that dealt with the two variables of the study. The researcher has adopted Watkins' theory of gratitude, and the Fallow field s' theory for the quality of life.
The researcher built two scales, the first for the concept of gratitude consisted of (30) items and the second for the concept of quality Life consisted of (44) items s as financial forms for both, each scale has five alternatives.
The researcher has done the statistical analyzes to extract psychometric properties for the two scales, as well as she extracted types of validity for them, such as face- validity and internal - validity in two methods : two extremes groups, the correlation- efficient between the score of the item and the overall scale of the scale, and the correlation- efficient between the score of the item with the score of the field, as well as the correlation- efficient of the scores of field to the scores of other fields.
The researcher extracted reliability in two methods: the external reliability method (test and retest), and the internal reliability (coefficient) alpha Cronbach), then the researcher applied the two scales to a sample of 413 teachers (male & female).
In order to achieve the objectives of the study.
The research data was processed by the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) program. The most important findings of the search are:
1- The teachers feel grateful.
2- The teachers feel of the quality of life.
3- There is a statistically positive correlation between gratitude and quality of life.
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