Abstract:
The study aimed to identify the mental toughness and its relationship with anxiety for the public Sudanese’s universities students in Khartoum state. The study followed the correlation descriptive method; and measures of Dr. Machemar for mental Toughness (2002); and the measure of Taylor for anxiety (1983). The society of the study consisted of first and final bachelor year students of the public universities in Khartoum state. The study sample comprises 300) students Male and Female, chosen by the chance method. The research used (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) (SPSS) Version: No;16: and used Alfa kronbach equation, Percentage, T- test, coefficient of correlation equation of Pearson-Test for average difference test. The important results of the study are: The overall theme for Mental toughness have public Sudanese’s universities in Khartoum state students to rise; and is characterized by general characteristic of anxiety for public Sudanese’s universities in Khartoum state students to rise; There is a correlation reversed statistically significant correlation between the mental toughness and anxiety. There are differences of statistically significance in the mental toughness due to the gender for the favor of male. There are no differences of statistically significance due to the gender. The researcher put the following recommendations; to work on solving and treating behavioral problems and disorders that face university students such as anxiety, taking care of the mental health and the mental toughness for students, the need of providing direction and guidance university services and improving the university’s environment.
