Thinking styles built in accordance to the mental selfcontrol theory and its relationship with academic selfconcept among students in the Faculty of Education at Prince Sattam bin Abdul-Aziz University

Salama Aqeel Al-mehsin

Abstract

This study aimed at detecting the thinking styles prevailing among students in the Faculty of Education at Prince Sattam bin Abdul-Aziz University and the level of academic self-concept and the relationship between thinking styles and the academic self-concept, and to achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher used thinking styles scale built according to self-mental adjustment theory for Sternberg & Wagner (1992) and extraction of semantics of validity and reliability, and the researcher develop academic self-concept scale and he extracted its validity and reliability semantics. The study sample consisted of (289) female students from the Faculty of Education at Sattam bin Abdul-Aziz University. The results indicated that the most common ways of thinking styles prevailed among the study sample members were these (hierarchy, executive, judicial, and Royal, the external, minority, chaotic, and purses) with a high degree, while these thinking methods (local, internal, legislative, editorial, Global) came in a moderate degree. The results of the study refers to a medium degree of academic selfconcept among the members of the study sample, and the results indicated that there is a correlation between all thinking styles and academic self-concept and all correlation coefficients were statistically significant. In light of the results of the study the current study recommends research into the causes of the differences between males and females and to develop appropriate psychosocial programs for each and work on the development of thinking styles among university students, by including thinking skills in courses.