Constructing a mental limits test for middle school students in the city of Mosul

Abstract

The research aims to construct a mental limits test for middle school students in the city of Mosul, and for the purpose of achieving this, the two researchers looked at some studies and literature and developed a mental limits test according to Hartman's theory. The test consists of (63) items distributed over (8) areas (dimensions) These are (the limits related to thoughts and feelings, the perceptual limits, the limits of memory, the physical limits, the limits related to identity (sexual identity), the limits between individuals, the limits related to the organization of the individual’s self, the limits related to opinions and judgments). As it was relied upon after the approval of experts and arbitrators in education and psychology, the sample was chosen randomly from middle school students on both sides of the city of Mosul (left and right). The goal of the research was achieved in preparing the mental limits test, and a number of recommendations and proposals were formulated.