Hopelessness can be consider as a subtype of depressions, it can be defined as having no expectation of good or success, giving no ground for hope, incapable of solution management or accomplishment .
Hopelessness is one of psychological variables that distinguish negative personalities because there are positive correlation between hopelessness and variables such as : anxiety, depression, suicide thought and so on .
One of the important variables correlate with hopelessness is low self-esteem, many studies indicate that there are statistically significant inverse relationship between the two variables, the present study aimed to :
- Measures hopelessness for university students.
- Acquaint to the significant of differences between males and females and scientific college students and humanistic college students .
- Measures self-esteem of university student .
- Acquaint to the significant of differences between males and females and between scientific college students and humanistic college students .
- Acquaint to the relationship between hopelessness and self-esteem for university students .
To a chive this aims is should used two instruments, the first to measure hopelessness that is Al-Jaberi scale ( 2007 ) consist of ( 20 ) items, the face validity of this scale in this research obtained, also reliability in internal consistency ( Alph coefficient ) method at value ( 0.77 ).
The second scale for measure self-esteem it was Al-Ubaide scale ( 1999 ), consist of ( 36 ) items, the face validity of this scale in this research obtained as well as reliability in internal consistency ( split – half ) at the value of ( 0.64 ) .
The two scales applied on sample consisting of ( 138 ) student ( males and females ) from Baghdad university for academic year 2008 – 2009, after the data have been statically treated by adopting the appropriate means such as t – test for one sample and for two separate samples and Pearson correlation coefficient, the result was:
- There are no hopelessness for university students in this research, and this is a positive indicate of psychological health.
- There are no statistical significant differences between males and females and between scientific college student and humanistic college student in regard to hopelessness.
- The total level of self-esteem for university students in this research is high, this is a positive indicate of psychological health for them.
- There are no statistical significant differences between males and females and between scientific college student and humanistic college student in regard to self-esteem.
- There are statistically significant inverse relationship between hopelessness and self-esteem for university student.
According to the above results, number of recommendations and suggestions have presented.