التفكير الجانبي و علاقته بسمات الشخصية على وفق أنموذج قائمة العوامل الخمسة للشخصية لدى طلبة الجامعة

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The current research aims at identifying: First: Lateral thinking among the university students. Second: Personality traits in accordance with the big five personality factors model among the students of university. Third: Correlation between the lateral thinking and personality traits according to the big five personality factors model among the students of university. Fourth: Correlation between the lateral thinking and personality traits to conform to the big five personality factors model according to: • Gender (males - females). • Specialty (Scientific - humanitarian). The current research is restricted to the students of Al-Mustansriya University of scientific and humanitarian specialties from males and females for the academic year ٢٠٠٩ - ٢٠١٠. In order to achieve the goals of the current research, the researcher has developed a questionnaire over lateral thinking according to the suggestions and views of de Bono in lateral thinking.

The questionnaire consists of (٣٨) questions, however, after the applying it, the researcher conducted a statistical analysis for the questions (coefficient of difficulty, highlight the items) then he deleted (٤) questions which are (١.٢, ٢٦, ٣٦), as the final number of questions became (٣٤) ones.

The researcher extracted the psychometric indicators of the questionnaire, and adopted honesty and sincerity of virtual construction and stability coefficient according to Kiuder - Richardson ٢٠ ( ٠.٦٦ ). The researcher has adopted the scale of the big five personality factors of Costa & McCrae ١٩٩٢ (the Arabic translation of Al-Ansari ١٩٩٦) and after adapting it to the Iraqi environment, the scale became (٥٨).

And after applying the questionnaire, the researcher conducted a statistical analysis (Highlight items) of the scale, it was deleted two items (١٢,٣٢ and ٤٣) bringing the number of questions (٥٥) ones.

The researcher used the honesty, sincerity of virtual construction and stability coefficient through re-testing and analysis of variance were between (٠.٩١-٠.٨١) and (٠.٩٢-٠.٧٩) respectively, according to both methods. Those methods were applied to the sample of (٢٥٠) students selected in random manner from the colleges of Al-Mustansriya University.

After collecting information and processing it statistically, the researcher found the following results: ١.

The low level of lateral thinking among the university students in various specialties and gender. ٢.

The members of the selected sample characterized by conscientious, neuroticism, openness to experience and extraversion more than the agreeableness trait. ٣.

The results showed that there was no statistically significant correlation between lateral thinking and the traits of neuroticism, extraversion, and agreeableness.

While the results showed that there was statistically significant relationship between the lateral thinking and the trait of openness to experience and conscientious. ٤.

It is showed that relationship between each of the lateral thinking and openness to experience traits in males are better than females.

While it is showed that the relationship between lateral thinking and conscientious trait in females is better than males from the rest of the differences in the relationship. ٥.

It is showed that students of scientific specialty have better relationship between each of the lateral thinking and the trait of openness to experience from the rest of the differences in the relationship. According to the results found by the current research, the researcher recommended a number of following andproposed a number of studies to complement the current search.