Emotional Contagion among Secondary School Students

Abstract

The current research aims to identify emotional infection among secondary school students, and the statistically significant differences in emotional infection according to the gender variable (males - females) and grade (fifth preparatory, second average). The study sample consisted of (488) male and female students for the academic year (2022, 2021), and to the objectives of the research, the achieve researcher used the descriptive approach, and the researcher adopted the emotional contagion scale for (ANTON MARX.,2020) The psychometric properties of the scale were verified after it was presented to a group of experts. Then the researcher analyzed the data by using the statistical portfolio for social sciences. The results showed the presence of emotional infection among secondary school students, and there are statistically significant differences in infection. Emotional contagion according to the gender variable, and there are no statistically significant differences in emotional contagion according to the grade variable.