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This study aimed to identify the differences of the emotional problems of resources room and regular classroom students and identify the differences in the evaluation of teachers and parents to these problems as well as determine the effect of sex variable for its occurrence. The sample of the study contains (200) students, chosen by deliberate method of the study community, divided into two categories the first category: 100 resources room students (50 males/ 50 females) and the second: 100 regular students (50 males/ 50 females), (100) resources rooms teachers, (100) regular classes teachers, and (89) of regular students' families and (66) of resource rooms students' families. To answer the research questions the researcher used children's social behavioral scale (child self-esteem) and strengths and difficulties questionnaire for parents and teachers and distributed it after checked the tools' validity and reliability semantics, and their appropriate for the study. The results indicated that the most common behavioral and emotional problems of resource rooms students are as follow: first, hyperactivity, then the problems in relationships with peers then emotional problems and conduct problems from the teachers and parents perspective, but from the perspective of students, the most common problems are the relationships with parents and relations problems and the least were for social pressure and depression. (Author's abstract)