A master's thesis at the College of Education for Humanities at the University of Basra explored the fear of affection and its relationship to self-protection among orphaned secondary school students.
The thesis, submitted by student Duaa Adnan Mohsen, aimed to examine the fear of affection among the research sample, the differences in fear of affection among the sample according to gender (male, female), the self-protection of the research sample, the differences in self-protection according to gender (male, female), the strength and direction of the relationship between fear of affection and self-protection among the research sample, and the difference in the relationship between fear of affection and self-protection according to gender (male, female). The fear of affection and its relationship to self-protection are highly important topics that should be the focus of research and study. These variables have been imposed by the nature of emerging developments, situations, circumstances, and events that are gradually expanding and affecting individuals and societies alike. Their direct and indirect effects are evident on the psychological and social dimensions of individuals who fall victim to them, on the one hand, and on the strategies and means of coping with them, on the other.
The thesis included the most important findings: statistically significant differences between the sample mean and the hypothetical mean of the fear of affection scale at a significance level of (0.05), in favor of the research sample; statistically significant differences in fear of affection according to the gender variable (males, females), in favor of males; and statistically significant differences between the sample mean and the hypothetical mean of the self-protection scale at a significance level of
