الملخص الإنجليزي
This study aimed to identify the prevalence rate of irrational thoughts and their relationship to the automatic thoughts among teachers of North Batinah in the light of some of the variables (type, number of years of teaching,
educational qualification), and the study sample consisted of (370) teachers of the North Batinah(151) males, and (219) females.
For the purposes of this study, the use of standard irrational thoughts of Rihani (1985), and the scale of automatic thoughts Al Dahadha (2010), the psychometric properties of the two measures were investigated, results
showed that the rate of prevalence of irrational thoughts among the teachers
of the North Batinah ranging between (21.89%) at the maximum and that is for the idea (4) (expect calamities and disasters), and between (1.08%) at the minimum and that is for the idea (1) (request for approval). In comparison with
the automatic thoughts, the proportion of those who have automatic thoughts
is (10.8%) from the sample, and the most prevalent automatic thoughts are hope if I am a better person, there are many things must be changed, my life
does not go as I want to be, but there is something wrong which always following me, I wish I had somewhere else, nothing makes me feel comfortable as I would like, why I do not meet the success, I feel very much disappointed in myself). The results showed that there was no significant statistic differences in irrational thoughts as a whole due to the variable type with the exception of irrational thoughts (13,4,2,3,12), the differences were in the idea (4) (expect calamities and disasters) in favor of males, and the differences in thoughts (2,3,12,13) (in order to be perfect, self-blame and
others, serious and formal in dealing with others, the relationship of men and
women) in favor of females, and also no statistic significant differences in the
irrational thoughts as a whole due to the variable number of years of teaching with the exception of the idea (7) (avoid the responsibilities and difficulties)
and the differences were in favor of the category of (less than 5 years), and
also no statistic significant differences in the irrational thoughts as a whole
due to the variable of qualification with the exception of the idea (11) (serious and formal in dealing with others) and the differences were in favor of the category of (BA), and for negative stereotypes mechanism, there was no significant statistic differences due to the variable type, variable number of years of teaching, and scientific qualification. It also showed the presence of positive relationship significant statistic at the level of (0.05) between the irrational idea (3) (blame self and others) and the overall degree of negative stereotypes of the mechanism, while no relationship is negative (inverse) of significant irrational between irrational thoughts of other thoughts and irrational thoughts as a whole and the overall degree of negative stereotypes
of the mechanism, the results have been discussed and taken the appropriate recommendations.
