Impact of Positive Thinking and Life Orientation on the Future Anxiety Among University Students Coming to Graduation

Abstract

study aims at investigating the effect of positive thinking and life orientation on future anxiety among the university students who are going to graduate, and what one thinks is important and meaningful in his or her life to reduce stress and insecurity. The sample consisted of 147 students from five specialties in the Department of Psychology. Age ranged between (22 to 37)  years. They have responded to positive thinking scale (Scheier & Carver (1985) traduced by Abesettar (2010), Future anxiety scale (Chakir, 2005) and life orientation test (Alansari, 2002). Results of multiple linear regression showed a negative relationship between both positive thinking and life orientation with future anxiety. Also, results showed that there is a statistically significant difference in positive thinking and life orientation between students who their economic status are average or higher than who are lower. But there is no statistically significant difference due to gender difference. We concluded that thinking factor has a strong impact in adjusting the level of degree of orientation towards life.