A Comparative Study on the Emotional Life Style of Middle School Teachers in the City of Mosul

The research aims to measure the emotional life style of middle school teachers, and to identify the levelofemotional life style of middle school teachers according to the variable (gender, specialization, and duration of marriage), as well as the differences in the level of emotional life style according to the variable (gender, specialization, the duration of marriage). The research community reached (1779) male and female teachers, and the main sample was (600) male and female teachers distributed among the schools of the center of Nineveh Governorate, and one of the requirements of the study is a tool to measure the emotional lifestyle, so the two researchers translated, Arabized and adapted the scale (emotional lifestyle) by Randy Larsen (Randy, J, Larsen 1984), and David Buss (David.M, Buss), prepared in (1984), consisting of (40) items, and it was developed by excellence and factor analysis procedures. The number of paragraphs became (33) paragraphs distributed over (6) fields, and then presented to experts specialized in the English language to verify the veracity of the translation, noting that "the scale consists of (24) paragraphs, and each paragraph has seven alternatives and requires the respondent to choose the alternative that applies to him The alternatives are: (Strongly disagree, disagree, no I somewhat agree, neutral, somewhat agree (somewhat, agree, strongly agree). Reliability was calculated using test-retest and Cronbach's alpha method. The highest score for the scale is (168) and the lowest score for the scale is (24) with a hypothetical mean (96). The scale was applied in its final form to the basic research sample and it was found that the tool is honest and consistent and its paragraphs are distinguished and valid for application. The researchers concluded that middle school teachers have a high level of emotional life style. There are no statistically significant differences according to the variables of gender, specialization, and duration of marriage. They also recommended its use to the concerned authorities to benefit from the results of the research in order to enhance the emotional lifestyle, and they suggested conducting a correlative study of the relationship of the emotional lifestyle with the two personality types (A-B) among university professors