EMOTIONAL MEMORY AND FUTURE ANXIETY AND THEIR RELATIONSHIP TO THE EGO IDENTITY AMONG STUDENTS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORTS SCIENCES AT AL-HILLA UNIVERSITY COLLEGE

Abstract

The research aims to identify the relationship between emotional memory, future anxiety, and ego identity among students in the Physical Education Department of and Sports Sciences at Hilla University College. The researchers used the descriptive approach in associative relations and identified the research community. They are the Department of Physical Education and Sports Sciences students at Al-Hilla University College. Their number is (345) for the academic year 2020–21. A student and the main experiment distributed scales (ego identity, emotional memory, and future anxiety) to the male research sample. When the data was statistically analyzed using arithmetic means, standard deviations, and the Pearson correlation coefficient, the researchers concluded a significant correlation between emotional memory and future anxiety in the research sample. Thinking about future anxiety controls self-control and interaction with the environment.