المرونة المعرفية و علاقتها بمهارات التفكير المستقبلي لدى عينة من طلبة جامعة نجران

Abstract EN

the current study aimed to identify the levels of the cognitive flexibility and the future thinking skills among Najran University (NU) students, Besides, it attempted to explore the correlation between them and the degree of relative contribution of cognitive flexibility to future thinking skills.

To achieve the objectives of the study, the study followed a correlational descriptive approach, the study was applied to a sample of 342 NU students.

The following findings were accordingly revealed: - The level of the students' cognitive flexibility as a whole, was average.

- The score of the students' possession for the future thinking skills as a whole was average.

- There were no statistically significant differences between the mean scores of the sample in the scale of the cognitive flexibility and future thinking skills, attributed to the variable of gender.

- There were statistically significant differences between the mean scores of the sample in the scale of the cognitive flexibility and future thinking skills, attributed to the variable of the academic level.

- There was a significant correlation between the cognitive flexibility and the future thinking skills, together with all their dimensions as a whole - There was a statistically significant effect for the students' cognitive flexibility on their future thinking skills