Emotional Suppression and its Relationship to Persecutory Thinking

The aim of the study was to find the correlation between emotional repression and oppressive thinking and to identify the level of emotional repression and the oppressive thinking of the sample members and to identify differences according to the two sex variables. The study sample consisted of 400 students (male and female), They were selected from four faculties of the University of Baghdad, two faculties of scientific specialization and two colleges of human specialization with 200 male students and 200 female students. In order to achieve the research objectives, two measures were adopted (for emotional suppression and another for oppressive thinking). In the current research, the cykometric properties of the validity, consistency and discrimination of vertebrates were extracted. The results showed that the research sample had an emotional suppression and that there were differences between males and females in favor of females. The results of the study showed that the research sample has a compulsive thinking. There are no differences between males and females. There is a positive correlation between emotional suppression and oppressive thinking (0.73). The research ended with a number of recommendations and suggestions.