الخصائص النفسية و المعرفية اللازمة لتنمية التفكير الإيجابي لدى طلبة الصف العاشر في ضوء متغيري الجنس و التحصيل الدراسي

Abstract EN

The present study aims to investigate the effect of some psychological and cognitive characteristics in the level of positive thinking.

It was conducted on a sample of (97) students from the 10th grade in sal fit-Palestine and the Arab scale of positive thinking was used.

Four aspects of it are positive expectations and optimism, emotional control, general sense of satisfaction, accepting personal responsibility.

The results showed the ineffectiveness of sex and academic achievement in influencing the level of positive thinking among the sample members of the study.

Results showed a strong positive relationship between the total degree of the scale in four areas: (positive expectations and emotional control and a sense of satisfaction and personal responsibility) and the level of positive thinking where the effect size reached 76.68 %.

The study concluded with a number of recommendations, the most important of which is : educators should focus on the teaching of students’ positive thinking patterns because of strong relationship with the positive aspects of the individual’s, personality.