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The Relationship between Thinking Style and Gender in High School Students

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Author Affiliations

  • 1Department of psychology, Kish International Branch, Islamic Azad University, Kish, IRAN
  • 2 M D Department of Psychiatry, University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, Tehran, IRAN.

Int. Res. J. Biological Sci., Volume 3, Issue (12), Pages 1-4, December,10 (2014)

Abstract

Various researches show that thinking style is correlated with creativity, problem-solving, decision-making, educational and vocational advancement and different elements such as gender could affect the thinking style. Thus, this correlation research aimed to study the relationship between thinking style and gender. All the male and female students of district 13 of Tehran were taken as statistical universe. The sampling method was cluster sampling. The sample was composed of 200 students (100 males and 100 females). The Sternberg-Wagner inventory was used including five thinking style: Legislative, Judicative, Executive, Introspective and Extra tensive. The data was analyzed by SPSS software and Independent T-Test was used to compare the males and females mean. Given the findings of this research the males’ mean of legislative thinking style (T =3.47, df=198) and Introspective thinking style (T=3.06, df=198) was more than those of females and this difference was significant while the females mean in judicative, executive and extra tensive thinking style was more than those of males and this difference was significant in 2styles : judicative (T=5.36, df=198) and extra tensive (T=3.2, df=198) with p0.05 but difference was not significant in executive thinking style (T=2.03,df=198).

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