Persecutory thinking in people with special needs

Abstract

The research aims to identify persecutory thinking among people with special needs and to identify the differences in persecutory thinking according to the marital status variable (married, single) and gender variable (males, females). To achieve the research objectives, it was necessary to follow procedures to achieve these objectives, including adopting the scale (McKay, 2006) consisting of 10 items after translating it into Arabic. A sample of (200) people with special needs of both sexes in Baghdad Governorate was selected and the results showed that people with special needs do not have persecutory thinking, meaning that there is a statistically significant difference in favor of the hypothetical average. There is also a difference in persecutory thinking according to the marital status variable in favor of single people with special needs. There is also a difference in persecutory thinking according to the gender variable in favor of the average females among people with special needs.