Suggestibility And Its Relationship To Emotional Thinking Among University Students

Abstract

Identifying the level of suggestibility and emotional thinking among university students is the key aim of this research, as well as identifying the significance of differences according to gender (males - females), and the correlation between the two variables. In order to verify this, the researchers adopted the measure of suggestibility prepared by "Roman Kotov" (2004), Arabized by (Abdul Rahman 2014), where the number of its final paragraphs reached (79) paragraphs, and adopted the scale of emotional thinking prepared by Abdullah 2017). The scale consisted of (27) final paragraphs, and their psychometric characteristics were ascertained, where the two tools were applied to a sample of (160) male and female students who were selected in a stratified random method from four colleges at the University of Baghdad: (College of Political Science and College of Education / Ibn Rushd, College of Engineering, and College of Science), for the academic year 2019-2020. The results of the research showed the following:

1. University students do not have a tendency to suggestibility.


2. There are no differences between (males and females) in suggestibility.


3. University students have emotional thinking.


4. There are no differences between (male and female) in emotional thinking.


5. There is no correlation between suggestibility and emotional thinking among university students.