أساليب التفكير الدافعي السائدة في ضوء نظرية العقل الدافعي و النوع لدى الطلبة المتفوقين عقليا بالمرحلة الثانوية

Abstract EN

The aim of the current research is to reveal the prevailing motivated thinking styles or patterns among the mentally talented students in the secondary stage in the light of the motivated mind theory, in addition to examining the gender differences among the mentally talented students in the prevailing motivated thinking styles.

The descriptive approach was used in connection with the nature and objectives of the research.

The research sample included (85) mentally talented students (46 female students, 39 male students) in the second year of secondary school at the mentally talented School for Science and Technology “Stem” in Beni-Suef Governorate.

A list of Motivated thinking styles was applied to them (prepared by the researcher) after verifying its stability and validity by appropriate statistical methods.

Several statistical methods were used to ensure the stability and validity of the research tool and to verify its hypotheses, namely Alpha-Cronbach, Pearson correlation, Confirmatory factor analysis, Mean, Standard deviation, Repeated-measures analysis of variance, and T-test for two independent samples.

The research results found that the cold-ordered thinking style ranked first among the three motivated thinking styles with an average of (3.93 of 5), followed by the hot-chaotic thinking style with an average of (3.88), and the third and final rank was the fluid-adaptive thinking style with an average of (3.86) and all of these averages placed in the response range of a large degree that indicates that the research sample of the mentally talented students use the three motivated thinking styles to a large extent.

In addition to the ence of statistically significant differences between the average degrees of the three motivated thinking styles of the research sample, which indicates that there are no differences in the degree of using the three styles of motivated thinking among the research sample of mentally talented students.

The research results also indicated that there were statistically significant differences between mentally talented males and females in the three prevailing motivated thinking styles (cold-ordered – hot-chaotic – fluid-adaptive) in favor of the average scores of females in the three cases.

In light of the results of the research, many recommendations and proposed researches were presented.