Self-protection behavior and its relationship to emotional creativity among female students in the kindergarten department

The current research aims to identify self-protection behavior and emotional creativity among female students in the kindergarten department and to know the correlation between two variables (self-protection behavior and emotional creativity) in the research sample. The research tool was adopting a measure of self-protection behavior and constructing a measure of emotional creativity: after reviewing previous studies. By reviewing the psychological literature that dealt with self-protective behavior and emotional creativity, the researcher adopted a scale that suits the sample and objectives of the current research, which is the (Khudair, 2023) scale for self-protective behavior. The emotional creativity scale was built according to Averill’s theory (Averill, 1999), and the scale consists of three components. (Flexibility, originality, and effectiveness) The total number of items in the scale became (30) items, and the research sample consisted of (334) female students from the kindergarten department. Appropriate statistical methods were used to achieve the research objectives. The research reached the following results: that the segment of female students from the kindergarten department had Self-protective behavior, and they have emotional creativity that enables them to face difficult and painful situations and adapt to their companions. There is a correlation between the two variables for female students in the third stage, more than in other stages. On the other hand, the relationship between the two variables in the fourth stage is weak. The research came out with a set of recommendations and proposals.