أساليب التفكير وعلاقتها ببعض المتغيرات لدى طلاب المرحلة الثانوية في دولة الكويت في ضوء نظرية ستيرنبرج

Abstract

Study Abstract : The study aimed at identifying Secondary School students' preferred thinking styles in the State of Kuwait in the light of Sternberg's theory of thinking styles and the relations of these styles to gender, academic achievement level, and parenting styles. The sample consisted of 340 students (138 males, 202 females) selected randomly from the eleventh grade science and art divisions classes enrolled in secondary public schools in Kuwait. Their age average was 16 years and 10 months The study used Sternberg & Wagner Thinking Styles Inventory 1992, Zein Al Abdeen Darweesh Parenting Styles Inventory, and students' achievement total scores at the end of the first semester of the academic year 2007/2008. The study results showed that the most preferred thinking styles of the study sample were: external, legislative, hierarchic, executive, liberal and judicial styles. Whereas, the least preferred thinking styles were ranked in the following order: anarchic, global and internal thinking styles. On the other hand, the results showed statistically significant differences between the performances of males and females on the anarchic and external thinking styles in favor of the females group. Furthermore, results didn't show any statistically significant differences between the study groups in the remaining thinking styles.