Academic Resilience among Tikrit University Students and its Relationship to their Cognitive Curiosity
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The current research aims at revealing academic endurance among Tikrit university students and its relationship to their cognitive curiosity. The research community included male and female students of Tikrit University, from both scientific and humanitarian specializations. The researcher chooses a sample that consists of (500) male and female students distributed equally in the sample. The researcher prepares two scales, one to measure academic resilience and the other to measure cognitive curiosity and their apparent sincerity, the distinction of their paragraphs and their stability, as the academic resilience scale in its final form consisted of (28) items and the cognitive curiosity scale of (51) items, and in front of each item (5) alternatives were placed, and after applying the two research tools the research showed the following results: There is a high level of academic resilience and cognitive curiosity among Tikrit University students, and there are no differences in academic resilience and cognitive curiosity according to the gender variable. The research also shows a positive correlation between academic resilience and cognitive curiosity, and in light of the research results, the researcher puts together a set of conclusions, recommendations and suggestions.
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