AU - Abo Elela, Hala Said AB - The study aimed to identify the effective and positive thinking and their relationship to reducing future anxiety for students of home economics at the Faculty of Specific Education, Alexandria University, where he met the concept of optimism and pessimism large turnout among researchers at the present time what revealed by many studies the impact that can be practiced characteristic optimism and high pessimism on the lives of individuals and their performance and the rate of their production. And followed in this study, the experimental design ever per experimental group, And it amounted to sample all the students parameters second year the department of home economics at the Faculty of Specific Education, Alexandria University, and their number (30), a student, for the academic year 2015/2016. The study was the use of tools (optimism and pessimism for Seligman scale, test positive thinking, and the measure of future anxiety. The study found: 1) There are no significant differences between the Mean degrees of experimental group in Pre-test and Post-test for optimism. 2) There are no significant differences between the Mean degrees of experimental group in Post -test and Follow up test for optimism. 3) There are no significant differences between the Mean degrees of experimental group in Pre-test and Post-test for Positive Thinking Skills and the total Degree. 4) There are no significant differences between the mean degrees of experimental group in post -test and follow up test for positive thinking skills and the total degree. 5) There is no statistically significant relationship between the future anxiety and all of optimism and positive thinking skills for students in the experimental group after applying of the development strategy. The study provides some recommendations: 1) Reapply development strategy on other samples from different educational levels of the pre-university education. 2) Application of strategy on equality in the different educational levels to see the impact that can have on male and female, and the construction of other strategies that help in the construction of optimism and positive thinking and the face of concern for future students parameters. 3) Teach students how to think positive and make it unusual behavior in their lives, in order to meet future challenges and problems. (Published abstract) http://search.shamaa.org/abstract_en.gif OP - pp. 11-43 T1 - Effectiveness of development strategy in building optimism and positive thinking and their relationship of reducing future anxiety for students of home economics at the Faculty of Specific Education, Alexandria University [Article] UL - 1 http://search.shamaa.org/fulltext.gif http://search.shamaa.org/PDF/Articles/EGJrciet/JrcietVol3No3Y2017/jrciet_2017-v3-n3_011-043_eng.pdf Full text (PDF)