حب الاستطلاع العلمي و علاقته بالتفكير التخيلي لدى الطالبات الموهوبات بالمرحلة الثانوية بمدينة الباحة

Abstract EN

The study aimed to reveal the degree of curiosity and its relationship to imaginative thinking among gifted female students at the secondary stage in Al-Baha city, and the study followed the correlational descriptive approach, where the study sample consisted of gifted students in the secondary stage (first-second-third) in al-Baha city and (92) female students were selected Talented randomly, the study tools consisted of two scales : curiosity and imaginative thinking.

The psychometric properties of the study scales of validity and reliability were confirmed by applying them to a survey sample consisting of (35) students from outside the original study sample.

The results of the study showed that the degree of curiosity among gifted female students at the secondary level is high, with an average (2.35) and a standard deviation (0.61).

The results also showed that the imaginative thinking of gifted female students at the secondary level was high, with an average of (2.37) and a standard deviation (0.62).

The results showed that there is a statistically significant correlation relationship at the level (0.01) between the curiosity and the degrees of (starting imagination, imagination visualization, transforming imagination, and the total degree of imaginative thinking) among gifted students at the secondary level.

The results showed that there were no statistically significant differences among gifted female students at the secondary level in the mean of degrees of curiosity and imaginative thinking due to the class variable.