Cognitive Overlap Processing Methods among Students of the Preparatory Stage

Abstract

The current research aims to identify:

1- Methods of treating Cognitive overlap  among middle school students

2-The significance of statistical differences in methods of processing  of Cognitive overlap  according to gender variables ( males , females ) , academic specialization ( scientific , literary ) , and the academic stage ( fourth , sixth )

In order to achieve the objectives of the research , the two researchers built a scale of methods of processing  of Cognitive overlap  according to the theory  (Sarason , 1990), which subjected the scale in its initial form to the procedures of statistical analysis and extracted the psychometric properties of (validity, reliability , and discriminatory strength) to become in its final form consisting of (40) items  distributed into five methods (reducing cognitive dissonance, refuting cognitive distortions, emotional organization and mitigating negative emotions, reducing mental stress, focusing on the task ). (8) items  were prepared for each of them because the scale consists of (40) items  and the statistical analysis was conducted for it and the psychometric properties were extracted from the validity and reliability  of a sample consisting of (700) students and students from the preparatory stage were selected in a random manner and in a proportional manner by (256) students and (444) students for the academic year 2022-2023, and after completing the research procedures, the researchers extracted the results of the analysis of the social science phase after the use of (SPS), and the electronic means of the two independent statistical methods, and the statistical analysis of the two methods. The research came up with a number of results arranged as follows:

1- Students have the ability to use methods of Cognitive overlap  processing

2- There are no statistically significant differences in the five methods of processing  of Cognitive overlap  according to variables ( gender , Section  , grade )