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The Psychological and Educational Dimension of Iraqi Folk Proverbs | ||
| Al-Fatih journal | ||
| Article 1, Volume 11, Issue 64, 2015, Pages 333-349 | ||
| Authors | ||
| ; Inst. Mouaffaq Ayoub Muhsin | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Proverbs are regarded a national and people's lifetime experiences describing hopes and pains in life and its psychological phenomena that are deeply rooted in the reality of Man and society. Proverbs are, in addition, of the minutest issues indicating peoples' thinking and conventions. Colloquial proverbs are suitable to be a social study because they are among the most reliable sources for psychological researches. On the social side, they comprised folk traditions and local values as well as remarks included in them to various industries, careers and living conditions. From the psychological side, proverbs contain inclinations of people in times of peace and fear. Therefore, the problem of the paper is to try answering the following question: are there educational and psychological dimensions in Iraqi folk proverbs? Moreover, parables and aphorisms are rules of peoples' experiences during various successive epochs. They indicate the sentimental sharing of feelings of pain, happiness, distress and prosperity. The paper aims at identifying the educational and psychological dimensions of Iraqi folk proverbs. Furthermore, the researcher has adopted the descriptive-analytical approach because it is the most suitable for information and data gathering from the population of the study in figuring out the educational and psychological dimensions in Iraqi folk proverbs. The researcher concluded that Iraqi folk proverbs are replete with psychological dimensions that are signifying the psychological disorders in an individual through his behavior in addition to the possibility of diagnosing the type of psychological disorder like megalomania, phobia, passive personality disorder and the like. They also full of educational guidance as another dimension of proverbs as warning from committing mistakes, a call for conduct amendment, being ethical, consulting others, stimulating self-reliance, accepting tutors and mentors rigidity as well as other positive educational instructions. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Folk Proverbs | ||
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