الانحياز التأكيدي وعلاقته بالأفكار الآلية السلبية لدى طلبة الجامعة

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The current study aimed to identify the confirmation bias and its relationship to negative mechanical thoughts among university students.

as (Turner.

1985) defined confirmation bias as a cognitive construct that explains the similarities and differences between people's behavior based on psychological, social and cognitive foundations for the purpose of understanding how people describe themselves within cognitive effects.

(Representations).

social effects (social context) and psychological effects (psychological organicity), as Beck (1979) defined negative mechanical thoughts as a stream of thoughts, opinions and perceptions that occur automatically in the individual's consciousness path and are based on major beliefs called cognitive schemas.

The individual has about himself and others And about his future.

as these ideas contribute to the cognitive evaluation.

which is characterized by a mismatch of the situation and may lead to an emotional response in the individual.

The current research aimed to know : Or not.

Confirmation bias among university students.

secondly.

Negative mechanical thoughts among university students.

Third.

Correlational relationship between confirmation bias and negative mechanical thoughts among university students.

Fourthly.

The difference in the relationship of confirmation bias to negative mechanical thoughts among university students according to the variables of gender (male female) and specialization (scientific - human).

To achieve the objectives of the research.

the two researchers prepared two scales.

one to measure confirmation bias and consisted of (24) items.

and the second to measure negative mechanical thoughts and consisted of (23) items.

All paragraphs of the two scales were accepted, with modifications made to some of the items.

The two scales were also subjected to statistical analysis and to extract validity and reliability for them.

After that.

the final application was made to the research sample of (396) male and female students, which were selected in a stratified random manner.

according to the proportion and proportionality of specialization and gender from the original community.

The search results showed the following : Or not.

There is no confirmation bias or negative mechanical thoughts in the research sample.

secondly.

There is a correlation between confirmation bias and negative mechanical thoughts.

Third.

There are no statistically significant differences according to the variables of gender (males females) and specialization (scientific - human) in the relationship of confirmation bias with negative mechanical thoughts in the research sample.

The research concluded with a number of recommendations and suggestions.