The psychological and educational dimension in Iraqi popular proverbs

Abstract

Proverbs are regarded a national and people's lifetime
experiences describing hopes and pains in life and its
psychological phenomena that are deeply rooted in the
reality of Man and society. Proverbs are, in addition, of the
minutest issues indicating peoples' thinking and conventions.
Colloquial proverbs are suitable to be a social study because
they are among the most reliable sources for psychological
researches. On the social side, they comprised folk traditions
and local values as well as remarks included in them to
various industries, careers and living conditions. From the
psychological side, proverbs contain inclinations of people
in times of peace and fear.
Therefore, the problem of the paper is to try answering the
following question: are there educational and psychological
dimensions in Iraqi folk proverbs?
Moreover, parables and aphorisms are rules of peoples'
experiences during various successive epochs. They indicate
the sentimental sharing of feelings of pain, happiness,
distress and prosperity.
The paper aims at identifying the educational and
psychological dimensions of Iraqi folk proverbs.
Furthermore, the researcher has adopted the descriptiveanalytical approach because it is the most suitable for
information and data gathering from the population of the
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study in figuring out the educational and psychological
dimensions in Iraqi folk proverbs.
The researcher concluded that Iraqi folk proverbs are replete
with psychological dimensions that are signifying the
psychological disorders in an individual through his
behavior in addition to the possibility of diagnosing the type
of psychological disorder like megalomania, phobia, passive
personality disorder and the like. They also full of
educational guidance as another dimension of proverbs as
warning from committing mistakes, a call for conduct
amendment, being ethical, consulting others, stimulating
self-reliance, accepting tutors and mentors rigidity as well as
other positive educational instructions.