Cognitive interference and its relationship to the false self among university students

Abstract

The current research aims to know the cognitive interference and its relationship to the false self among university students, as well as to identify the significance of the difference in the relationship according to gender (males - females) in addition to the correlation between the two variables. In order to verify this, the researcher adopted the cognitive interference scale prepared by (Al-Shamri, 2015) as the scale consisted of 36 paragraphs in its final form, and adopted the false self scale prepared by (Muhammad, 2021) as the paragraphs reached 25 paragraphs in its final form. The researcher verified the psychometric properties of the two scales and applied them to 140 male and female students who were randomly selected at Al-Mustansiriya University (College of Education, Arts, Sciences) for the academic year (2024 - 2025). The research results showed the following:

1- The research sample of university students does not have cognitive interference.

2- It was found that there is no difference in cognitive interference according to the gender variable (males - females) among university students.

3- The research sample of university students does not have a false self.

4- There is no difference in the false self according to the gender variable (males - females) among university students.

5- The results of the statistical analysis showed that there is no correlation between cognitive interference and the false self among university students.