Proactive Coping and its Relationship to Social Support

Abstract

The current research goal is to get to know

1. Expectative confrontation among the employees
2. Social support for employees
3. The correlation between expectant confrontation and social support
4. The difference in the correlation between expectant confrontation and social support depends on the gender, males and females
5. The extent of the social support contribution to the realistic confrontation

And to achieve the goals of the current research, the researcher translated the expectant confrontation measure from the foreign language into the Arabic language and extracted the validity of the translation from its psychometric characteristics from the validity and reliability of the scale. Social support, the researcher constructed and extracted his psychometric properties from sincerity and stability, as the stability was achieved by the (Test-retest) method (0.84) and by the Fakronbach method (0.88), which are two good stability coefficients. Baghdad, and after analyzing the data, the results emerged as follows:

1. The current research sample enjoys the realistic confrontation
2. The current research sample enjoys social support
3. There is an effective correlation between expectant confrontation and social support
4. There is a difference in the correlation between expectant confrontation and social support in favor of females
5. Social support contributes to anticipatory confrontation

In light of the results of the current research, the researcher developed a set of recommendations and proposals