Concurrent thinking And Its Relationship With Cognitive Holding Power Among University Students

Abstract

 The current research aims to know the Concurrent thinking and the Cognitive Holding Power among university students, as well as to identify the significance of the difference in the relationship according to gender (male-female), as well as the correlation between the two variables, and in order to verify this, the researcher adopted the Concurrent thinking scale prepared by (Abdeen 2017), as the scale consisted of (44) items in its final form, and it adopted the Cognitive Holding Power scale prepared by (Stevevnson) and translated from (Al-Rikabi, 2015), as the scale consisted of (30) items in its final form, and it was confirmed that Their psychometric characteristics, and the two tools were applied to a sample of (150) male and female students who were selected from four colleges at the University of Kufa: (College of Basic Education, College of Education, College of Agriculture, and College of Computing and Mathematics), for the academic year 2022-2023. The results of the research showed the following:

1. The research sample of university students have Concurrent thinking.
2. The research sample of university students have Cognitive Holding Power.
3. There is no difference in the relationship between Concurrent thinking and the Cognitive Holding Power according to the gender variable (male-female)
4. The results of the statistical analysis showed that there is a significant correlation between Concurrent thinking and the Cognitive Holding Power among university students.

Keywords: Concurrent thinking, Cognitive Holding Power, university students.