الفروق بين عينة من مرضى الاكتئاب و الأسوياء في التفكير الناقد

Abstract EN

The problem of the study is the increase of depressed patients as a result of modern life, which invites us to study the variables associated with depression such as critical thinking, critical thinking enables us to lead our thoughts, emotions, and desires, because it provides us with the mental tools we need to understand how thinking and reasoning work.

The study aimed to identify the differences between the ranks of sample’s scores of depressive patients and the ranks of sample’s score from normal individuals in critical thinking.

The importance of the study lies in highlighting the role of thinking as a mental ability in creating problems, as well as highlighting Richard Paul critical thinking approach and the foundation of thinking in California.

The study assumes that there are statistically significant differences between a sample of depressed patients and normal individuals in critical thinking according to Richard's approach.

This study belongs to the differential descriptive approach, The study sample consisted of ten patients with moderate depression and ten normal female members, in the age group (24- 37) years..

The study tools consisted of the Critical Thinking Assessment Form and the Hamilton Depression List.

The Mann-Whitney test was used to calculate the differences between the averages of the ranks of the small number of independent groups, and the results of the study shown a significant difference at the level of 0.01 between the normal group and the depression group in the critical thinking scale for the normal group.