The Mature Personality and Its Relationship to Cognitive Flexibility among Preparatory School Students
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This study aims at identifying the level of mature personality and cognitive flexibility among secondary school students in Kalar District / Sulaimaniyah Governorate in order to determine the statistically significant differences based on the variables of gender and specialization (scientific / literary). The researcher has used the descriptive method with relevant associations because it is the most appropriate approach for this type of research. Regarding the research sample, it consists of (300) male and female students from the secondary school stage. The researcher has prepared a scale of the mature personality which is characterized by four dimensions: self-extension, intimate relationships, self-acceptance, and reality awareness. He adopted Wahed’s (2017) scale of the cognitive flexibility to achieve the research objectives, and the psychometric properties of validity and reliability were extracted using statistical methods (pearson’s correlation coefficient, T-test, one-sample t-test, two-sample independent t-test). The results show that there is a statistically significant difference in the level of mature personality among the sample members, with a statistically significant difference between males and females according to the variables of gender in favor of male and specialization in favor of the scientific branch. Statistical differences also exist in cognitive flexibility levels between males and females, favoring males and specialization favoring the scientific branch. There is also a significant positive correlation between mature personality and cognitive personality.
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