Abstract
There is no doubt that the stressful events and situations that the individual is
exposed to affect his psychological structure in the context of his relationship with the
social environment in which he lives, so that it has become the cornerstone of
psychosomatic disorders, which leads him to feel distress, frustration, depression,
anxiety and other negative emotions, in addition to It leads to inappropriate
behavioral responses such as introversion and self-restriction, avoiding social
interaction with others, and feeling alienated so that life becomes meaningless for
him.
stressful life events have negative effects on human mental health, especially on
state employees, the researcher resorted to carrying out the current study, which
aimed to:
1- The stressful life events of state employees.
2- The significance of the differences in stressful life events for state employees
according to the gender variable (males - females).
In order to achieve this, the researcher built a measure of stressful life events
consisting of (36) items, distributed over three areas based on the theory of cognitive
appreciation of the world (Lazarus), and a sample of (400) employees from the
Ministry of Education was drawn, and after it extracted The validity and reliability
coefficients of the stressful life events scale items, and then analyzing the sample
answers, the research results showed the following:
A - The research sample does not have a level of stressful life events.
B - There is no effect of gender on the high level of stressful life events for the
research sample.