التفكير الجانبي و علاقته بالسيطرة الانتباهية لدى طلبة الجامعة

Abstract EN

The current research aims to identify the level of lateral thinking and the level of attention control among university students, as well as identify the significance of differences according to the gender variable (male - female), As well as the correlation between the two variables.

In order to verify this, the researcher adopted the lateral thinking test prepared by (Gharabawi 2013), the number of paragraphs in the final version (33) question, and adopted the measure of attention control prepared by (Shammari 2015) (125) students were randomly selected from four faculties at the University of Baghdad: Faculty of Political Science, College of Information, College of Engineering, And College of Science) for the academic year 2017-2018 and showed the results of the following research: 1- The research sample of university students has no lateral thinking.

2- There are no statistically significant differences between (male and female) in lateral thinking.

3- The research sample of the university students does not have any attention control.

4- There are statistically significant differences between males and females in attention control and in favor of females.

5- The results of the statistical analysis showed that there is no significant correlation between the current research variables, lateral thinking and attention control according to the sample as a whole.