Psychological hardness as a predictor of self-stigma in a sample of mentally ill patients

The study aims to reveal psychological hardness as a predictor of self-stigma and some demographic variables to achieve the goal according to the Psychological Hardness Scale (Mkhaimer's) to measure commitment, control and challenge, and Self-stigma Scale (prepared by researchers) to measure awareness of stigma, social withdrawal, covering up, feeling psychological stress, and approving meditative ideas on the study sample consisting of ( 30) of the mentally ill persons in the light of the economic and social level (high - low), and the responses were treated using the following statistical methods: Re-rationing procedures that were carried out with Cronbach's alpha and half split value scales and amended by Spearman-Brown formula, to measure consistency and significance of differences between the lower and higher quartiles through t-test to ensure that the two scales enjoy validity and consistency with their discriminating ability and internal consistency between the degrees of dimensions and the overall degree of the scale.
The results are summarized in using the regression equation that included correlation, analysis of variance and psychological hardness regression as a predictor of self-stigma in it to investigate the possibility of predicting self-stigma through psychological hardness and to ensure that self-stigma completed the prediction through the degree of psychological hardness, where the high degree in one of them corresponds to a decrease in degree of the other.