A master's thesis in the Department of Psychological Counseling and Educational Guidance / College of Education for Humanities, University of Basra - discussed interdependence and its relationship to the alternative five-factor model among educational counselors. The thesis presented by the student Tahseen Ali Hassouni aimed to identify interdependence and the alternative five factors (seeking impulsive sensation, aggression - hostility, neuroticism - anxiety, activity, and sociability) among educational counselors. The research boundaries consisted of all educational counselors (males - females) in government schools (primary - secondary) affiliated to the General Directorate of Education in Basra Governorate (center and districts) for the academic year (2023 - 2024 AD), and the research community consisted of (739) male and female counselors, with (250) males and (489) females, while the research sample consisted of (253) male and female counselors, with (85) males and (168) females. The researcher built a scale of interdependence, consisting of (30) paragraphs distributed over three areas, each area (10) paragraphs. The researcher also adopted the Zuckerman-Coleman personality questionnaire (1993), which is a multicultural version, as a tool that enables him to measure the five alternative factors, consisting of (50) paragraphs distributed over five factors, each factor (10) paragraphs, and their psychometric properties (validity, reliability, factor analysis) were verified. The message included a number of results, including that there is a weakness in the interdependence of educational counselors, and educational counselors have high degrees of the factor (activity) and low degrees for the factors (seeking impulsive sensation, neuroticism - anxiety, aggression - hostility, and sociability). The researcher concluded that there is a weakness in the interdependence of educational counselors, and this may be due to poor selection, weak preparation and qualification, and the inability to find a suitable school environment for counseling work. The presence of the activity trait among educational counselors may be due to the requirements of counseling work and the strenuous efforts it requires from educational counselors. The researcher recommended a number of recommendations, most notably: The need for the Ministry of Education to establish the concept of interdependence among all educational counselors by preparing appropriate plans for this. The researcher also suggested some proposals, most notably: Conducting a study to identify the relationship of the alternative five-factor model with other variables such as: emotional innovation, meaning of life
