الخوف من التقييم السلبي كمنبئ بالتحيزات المعرفية لدى طلبة الدراسات العليا

Abstract EN

The study aimed to identify the relationship between fear of negative evaluation and cognitive biases, as well as to detect the extent of predicting of fear of negative evaluation for post-graduate students with cognitive biases.

the study sample consisted of 200 male and female, post-graduate students in al-Aqsa University in Gaza Strip.

The researchers followed the descriptive analytical correlative predictive method, and used FNE-II (Leary, 1983) and cognitive biases scale prepared by (Al-Adeeli, 2017).

The results showed that there was statistically positive correlation between fear of negative evaluation and cognitive biases among post-graduate students at 0.0120 level, the possibility of predicting cognitive biases for post graduate students through their fear of negative evaluation, which showed that 52% of the differences that occurred in in cognitive biases, and fear of negative evaluation contributed 0.72 to predict of cognitive biases.

according to the study results, recommendations were proposed, the most important included conducting awareness sessions and guided counseling programs to reduce fear of negative evaluation and to avoid cognitive biases for post-graduate students.