Psychological Flexibility as a Mediating Variable between Unemployment Anxiety and Openness to Experience Among a Sample of Al-Quds Open University Graduates

Abstract

The study aimed to identify psychological flexibilty as a mediating variable between unemployment anxiety and openness to experience among a sample of Al-Quds Open University graduates. It also aimed at investigating the level and differences in the averages of each of these variables according to gender, family income level in shekels, and marital status. The correlational approach was used by the method of path analysis. The three study scales were applied: psychological flexibility measure, unemployment anxiety, and openness to experience on a sample chosen by the available sampling method, which included 234 graduated from Al-Quds Open University in the year 2021/2022. The results indicated the arithmetic mean of the study sample’s estimates on the psychological flexibility scale amounted to 3.97 and a percentage of 79.4% with a high rating. The results also indicated that the arithmetic mean of the estimates of the study sample on the unemployment anxiety scale amounted to 2.08 and a percentage of 41.6% with a low rating. The results showed that the arithmetic mean of the study sample’s ratings on the openness to experience scale amounted to 4.21 and a percentage of 84.2% with a high rating.