Future Concern and Its Relationship to Life-Stressing Events in Practices and Non-Practices of Sports Activities (A Comparative Study)

Abstract

The study aimed to identify " The Future Concern and Its Relationship to Life-Stressing Events in Practices and Non-Practices of Sports Activities". The researchers used the descriptive method for being suitable in achieving the goal of research. The descriptive method is a style based on the study of reality or apparent as it actually exists and cares about its study. The research sample consisted of (60 female students) from University of Diyala who were randomly selected and are divided into two groups (30 female students) from the College of Education for Humanities (Al-Asamy) and (30 female students) from the College of Physical Education and Sports Sciences. The study concluded that there are many reasons which makes the individual worried about his future and his inability to adapt with the problems facing him because the lack of experience in order to build positive ideas about the future due to wars, the openness of media, high cost of living, unemployment, and the delay of youth from marriage, and as a result all these circumstances lead to an intersection between wishes and reality which he is living in and has a negative impact on the future. The study recommended developing programs, courses, and workshops to ease future concern among university (male and female) students and teach them the skills of planning for the future on a sound basis to overcome any difficulties that may be faced in the future.