Journal of Educational Sciences > Volume 24, No. 4, 2012

The Relationship Between Self — Control and Negative Behaviors  / Faeqah Saaed Jowanah

Self-control is one of the most important contemporary psychological concepts. Studies tend to look at self — control as a characteristic that could affect the mood, emotional, and cognitive aspects of personality. The practical importance of such concept is that well — designed program, for helping people behave in a self — controlled manner, could treat behavioral patterns related to symptoms of emotional and psychosomatic disorders , Abdulwahab, Kamel, 1989, . The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship between self — control and negative behaviors , mutiny, lack of goal, aggression, and deviation from norms, . The sample consisted of , 517,  female students in their second and third years in the College of Arts at the University of Dammam, Saudi Arabia , King Faisal University, previously, . Ages range from 19-24. Tools were used in this research consisted of a self — control scale by KamelAbdulwahab and modified to suit the Saudi environment. Also, negative behavior scale prepared by researcher was used as a tool in this research . The results of the research showed that T results for all four behavioral patterns showed that such pattern does not apply to all students at the College of Arts as the value of T is negative at a level less than 0.05. There was a correlation between self — control and mutiny , R= — 0.404, ; a correlation between self — control and lack of goal , R= — 0.505, ; acorrelation between self — control and aggression , R= — 0.22, ; and acorrelation between self — control and deviation from norms , R= — 0.259, .