البنية العاملية لنموذج قياس المناعة النفسية دراسة سيكومترية على طلبة جامعةعجمان- الإمارات العربية المتحدة

Objectives: The study aimed to develop a psychological measure for the concept of psychological immunity among university students and identify the nature of its components, the factorial structure and the indicators of its validity and reliability. Methods: The study used the descriptive analytical approach, by applying the psychological immunity measure to a sample of (534) Ajman University students, and the factor analysis was relied upon through exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis. Results: The study results showed that the concept of psychological immunity is one of the formative concepts, which is represented by three latent factors that saturate 37 items, explaining (51.9%) of the cumulative variation of the items, where the first factor explained 32.2%, the second factor 13.9%, while the third factor explained 5.1% of the combined variance. It also found a statistically significant correlation between the proposed model of psychological immunity and the academic flexibility scale, which was a criterion for measuring the validity of the proposed model. Alpha coefficient for the stability of the response on the model was 0.939. Conclusions: The study pinpoints the notion that the psychological immunity system is deemed a reference to determine individuals’ behaviors and the nature of response to events. The study concluded that this system comprises three sub-systems of which the containment system constitutes the sentimental aspect which is responsible for transforming the negative emotional energy into bodily symptoms, the cognitive system which incites tactics to help the individual regain balance and the regulatory system which supervises the functionality of both emotional and cognitive system.