Social facilitation and its relationship to cognitive diversity among medical students

Abstract

The research targets the level of social facilitation and cognitive diversity of the medical group, while quantifying the nature of the correlational relationship between the two variables, and for this purpose, the researchers constructed the social facilitation scale of Hamza (2009) author of (12) paragraphs, and the scale of cognitive diversity (Wang, 2016, p. 7) the author of (16) paragraphs, and accordingly applied the scale to a sample of (400) students from Qadisiyah University and were selected by the proportional random stratified method, ensuring the representation of medical schools. After data collection, statistical processing was conducted using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS), the research results reached medical students do not have social facilitation, enjoy cognitive diversity, and recommendations: Intensify the role of training programs that contribute to raising the capacities and social skills of medical students The suggestions are: to conduct future studies addressing social facilitation and its relationship with psychological and pedagogical variables, and to implement subsequent studies that investigate the role of cognitive diversity as a mediating or moderating variable in the relationship between social facilitation.