استراتيجيات التحكم في الفكر و علاقتها بالتشوه الإدراكي لدى طلبة الجامعة

Abstract EN

The current research seeks to identify the relationship between thought control strategies and cognitive distortion among university students.

In order to achieve the objective of the current research, the researcher followed the relational descriptive approach.

The researcher identified her research community for students of Baghdad University for the academic year 2019-2020, and she chose a stratified random sample consisting of four colleges, half of them scientific and the other half humanitarian, with an estimated size of (500) male and female students.

In order to collect data and information, the researcher has adopted her research tools, and for each measure a set of psychometric characteristics necessary for validity and consistency were extracted, and after reassurance about the quality and accuracy of the research tools, the tools were applied to the research sample and the following results were reached : 1- There is a low level of thought-control strategies among university students 2- There are no statistically significant differences according to the gender variable in thought control strategies 3- University students have a high degree of cognitive distortion 4- There are no statistically significant differences according to the gender variable in the cognitive distortion.

5- There is an inverse relationship of statistical significance between the strategies of controlling thought and the cognitive distortion of university students.