حجم الاسهام النسبي للمرونة المعرفية في أساليب اتخاذ القرار لدى طلبة الدراسات العليا بجامعة أم القرى

Abstract EN

The current research aims to identify the most common decision-making methods and the most dimensions of flexibility used by post graduate students at Umm Al-Qura University, and to uncover statistically significant differences in the mean overall scores for the dimensions of the scale of the methods of Decision- making and the dimensions of cognitive flexibility if the administrative work is present or not, and determining the size of the relative contribution of the dimensions of cognitive flexibility in decision- making methods in the study sample consisting of 235 male and female postgraduate students.

The measure of decision-making methods and the Cognitive Resilience Scale, the results concluded that the rational method comes first followed by the dependent method, then the intuitive method, then the avoidance method, and finally the automatic method.

As for arranging the dimensions of cognitive flexibility, the cognitive alternatives come then control or discipline.

Also, statistically significant differences were found in the mean scores of the automatic method, the avoidance method, the cognitive alternatives, and the control or discipline due to administrative work in favor of those who do not practice administrative work, and it was also possible to determine the size of the relative contribution of the dimensions of cognitive flexibility in the methods of decision-making.