Preferred Thinking Styles of Graduate Students at Sheba Region University and their Relationship to Certain Variables: Preferred Thinking Styles of Graduate Students at Sheba Region University and their Relationship to Certain Variables

Abstract

The study aimed at revealing the preferred thinking styles of graduate students at Sheba Region University. The descriptive analytic approach based on field surveys was followed in the study. To achieve the study objectives, the researcher prepared a scale of (15) domains according to the theory of Harrison and Bramson where each domain included (5) items. Each one of these items measured one of the five thinking styles (idealist, realist, pragmatist, analyst, and synthesist). The validity and reliability of the scale were verified by the known scientifically psychometric methods. The sample of the study consisted of (80) graduate students in the Faculty of Education, Arts and Sciences and the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology in the academic year of 2019/2020. The study concluded that the realistic thinking style ranks first in the students’ estimates of their preferences for thinking styles, followed by the analytical, practical, idealistic, and synthetic thinking styles respectively. The results also revealed that there are no statistically significant differences attributed to the variables of gender, college, and academic department.