الحاجة إلى المعرفة و علاقتها باليقظة الذهنية لدى طلبة المرحلة المتوسطة

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The aim of the present study is to identify the relationship between mental awareness and its relation to the need for knowledge among high school students.

In order to achieve this goal, the researcher used the need for knowledge model by (Mahmoud, 2013) and the mental awareness model by Maslow (Maslow's need for knowledge theory).

The model contains 35 points which has been examined by a specialized group in the field of psychology after modifying some points of the model, a survey has been conducted on 100 random students for the academic year(2018-2019).

The psychometric properties (honesty and stability) were extracted and the results were (0.84) in Alfa Kronbach method and (0.81) in re-test method and this results are considered a high indicator of stability, The researcher used a number of statistical methods such as (arithmetic mean, standard deviation and T test), the results of this study are as follow; There is a connection between the need for knowledge and mental awareness of students, in other words the mental awareness of students is less when the need for knowledge is less as well.

The researcher sets a number recommendations and suggestions according to the study results.