الاستثارة الفائقة واليقظة العقلية كمنبئات بالدافعية العقلية لدى طلاب المرحلة الإعدادية المتفوقين عقليا بدولة الكويت

Abstract EN

The current study aimed to reveal the relationship of super- excitability and mental alertness to mental motivation among mentally superior preparatory school students in the state of Kuwait, and to predict mental motivation from their super-excitability and mental alertness.

participated in this study was (262) students selected from the original community from the country administration schools- superior preparatory school students in the state of Kuwait their ages ranged between (13.11) years to (15.6) years, with an average age of (14.9) years and a standard deviation of (11) months.

the tools used in the current study included: super-excitability scale (prepared by Fak, Lenda, Mellar, Boyugosky & Selfarman and development by Mohammed al Motary 2008), the mental alertness scale(prepared by Abd Alaah al Agmy, 2013), and the mental motivation scale prepared by (author), the results of the study concluded that there is a positive, statistically significant relationship between super excitability and mental motivation, and there is a positive statistically significant relationship between mental alertness and mental motivation.

the results of the study also found that mental motivation can be predicted from super-excitability and mental alertness among mentally superior middle school students in the state of Kuwait.