أساليب التفكير السائدة لدى طلبة الدراسات العليا بالجامعات الفلسطينية و علاقتها بتنظيم الذات لديهم

الملخص EN

The study aimed to ranked thinking styles among postgraduate students at Palestinian universities in southern governorates, and reveal their relationship with Self-regulation.

Descriptive analytical approach was used.

Also the study sample consisted of (230) students.

The study tools were: thinking styles scale prepared, and Self-regulation scale which developed by the researcher.

The study indicated that pragmatic thinking style ranked first, then idealistic thinking style, synthesis thinking style, realistic thinking style, finally analytic thinking style.

the results also showed that Self-regulation level among postgraduate students was high (80.41%).

There were a positive relationship between pragmatic thinking style and planning goals, Self-promotion domains, and total degree of Self-regulation, but there were no relationship has been shown between other thinking styles and self-regulation.

The results showed that there were no statistically significant differences between study sample response at thinking styles due to gender, social states, number of languages, and place of living.

Differences only appeared in pragmatic thinking style in favor of males, but the differences at analytic thinking style in favor of females.

Also the results showed that there were no statistically significant differences at Self-regulation level due to gender, social states, number of languages, and place of living.

The study recommended the inclusion of academic courses in graduate studies programs for topics that enhance thinking styles and their uses in students' life situations, encourage students to employ their abilities and invest their time.