The Proactive Personality Of Postgraduate Students

Abstract

The study aims to identify the proactive personality of graduate students, the significance of the differences in the proactive personality of graduate students according to the variables of gender (male - female) and specialization (scientific - human). In order to achieve the objectives of the research, the researchers built a measure of proactive personality, based on the theoretical framework of the concept of proactive personality of (Bateman & crant, 1993) and its definition. The second is the initiative and (10) paragraphs for the third field are manipulation in the environment, and each paragraph has five alternatives. The researchers chose to sample them in a stratified random manner. The number of (400) male and female students from the community of Dhi-Qar and Basra University were distributed according to gender, by (168) students and at a rate of (42%) ) and (232) female students at a rate of (58%). As for the specialization, the number of students in the scientific specialization reached (243) male and female students at a rate of (61%), and the number of students in the humanitarian specialization was (157) male and female students at a rate of (39%). Then, the paragraphs of the scale were analyzed logically and statistically to calculate their discriminatory ability and their validity coefficients, and the researchers verified the apparent validity and constructive validity indicators of the two scales, and calculated the stability of the two scales by (Alpha Cronbach-retest), and for the purpose of verifying the research procedures and results, the researchers used the following statistical means: Ca²_ One-sample t-test_ Two independent samples t-test_Pearson correlation coefficient_ Simple regression analysis of variance. The results revealed that the research sample possessed a proactive personality.