الفاعلية الذاتية و علاقتها بأنماط التفكير وفقا للسيطرة الدماغية لهيرمان لدى طلبة الصف العاشر في مدارس الملك عبد الله الثاني للتميز

Abstract EN

This study aimed to identify self-effcacy and its relationship to thinking styles according to Herrmann's brain dominance among the 10th grade students from King Abdullah II schools for Excellence.

To achieve the objectives of the study, Muris's (2001) Self-Effcacy scale and Herrmann's Brain Dominance Instrument )HBDI( were applied on 95 students; 57 males and 38 females from the 10th grade students of King Abdullah II schools for Excellence in Jordan, 2014-2015.

The results indicated that the level of emotional self-effcacy was moderate and academic, social self-effcacy, and the total scores were high.

The frequency order of thinking styles among the students were the right limbic brain thinking, the left cerebral brain thinking, the left limbic brain thinking, the right cerebral brain thinking, respectively.

Moreover, the results revealed the males' mean score of the left cerebral brain thinking was signifcantly higher )p≤ 0.05( than that of the females, while the right limbic brain and emotional and social self-effcacy were higher for females.

A positive signifcant correlation (p≤0.05( was evident between the social self-effcacy and the right limbic brain thinking style; academic self-effcacy and the left thinking style; emotional self-effcacy and the right limbic brain thinking style; and total score of self-effcacy and the left limbic brain and left thinking style.

However, a negative signifcant correlation (p≤0.05(was found between the emotional self-effcacy and the right cerebral brain thinking style.

It was recommended that the comprehension of thinking styles should be considered, especially that it correlates positively with self-effcacy.