Hossein Zare'; Ahmad Alipour; Reza Rahimi
Volume 10, Issue 31 , April 2014, , Pages 61-80
Abstract
Objective: The present study aims to compare the cognitive styles used by female and male students of the fields of computer and human sciences in Qurveh town. Method: This was a causal-comparative (ex-post facto) research. Using multi-stage cluster sampling method, 152 subjects (including 76 girls and ...
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Objective: The present study aims to compare the cognitive styles used by female and male students of the fields of computer and human sciences in Qurveh town. Method: This was a causal-comparative (ex-post facto) research. Using multi-stage cluster sampling method, 152 subjects (including 76 girls and 76 boys) were selected from among all students of technical schools as well as high schools. The subjects were asked to complete the Group Embedded Figures Test (GEFT), Factorial Analysis of Variance Test, and the Kolmogorov Test. The data was analyzed using the Smirnov Test. Results: The results showed that there was a significant difference in cognitive styles between students of computer and human sciences, and also between male and female students. Cognitive styles of computer students and male students were respectively more field-independent compared to human sciences students and female students. But there was no significant interaction between gender and field of study on one hand, and cognitive styles on the other hand. Conclusion: The results of this study confirmed the theories proposed by Witkin (1981) and Geschwind-Behan-Galaburda (1982).
Alireza Kakavand; Zahra Lebadi; Shokraneh Zare’i
Volume 9, Issue 27 , April 2013, , Pages 29-49
Abstract
The aim of the research was to examine the relationship between perfectionism and multiple cognitive styles including constructive thinking, emotional coping, behavioral coping, superstitious thinking, categorical thinking, esoteric thinking, and naive optimism. In this study, 330 female high school ...
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The aim of the research was to examine the relationship between perfectionism and multiple cognitive styles including constructive thinking, emotional coping, behavioral coping, superstitious thinking, categorical thinking, esoteric thinking, and naive optimism. In this study, 330 female high school students in Karaj were selected using multistage cluster sampling. Positive and Negative Perfectionism Scale (Terry-Short, 1995) and Constructive Thinking Inventory (Epstein and Meier, 1989) were used. The collected data were analyzed using simultaneous multiple regression procedure. Results showed a positive significant relationship between positive perfectionism and cognitive styles and a negative significant relationship between negative perfectionism and cognitive styles. In positive perfectionists, there were positive significant relationships among emotional coping with problems, behavioral coping with problems, and optimism. There was also a negative significant relationship between esoteric thinking and categorical thinking. Moreover, the relationship between constructive thinking and superstitious thinking was not significant. Negative perfectionism had negative relationships with constructive thinking and all its sub-categories. It had no significant relationship with optimism. The research findings indicated that positive perfectionists have positive thinking, are actively involved in solving their problems using behavioral and emotional methods, and have high levels of optimism and low levels of bipolar (categorical) negative thinking, superstitious thinking and esoteric thinking. On the contrary, negative perfectionists do not have positive thinking and do not use behavioral and emotional methods to overcome their problems. They have low levels of optimism; however, they keep themselves away from destructive thinking. In general, the obtained results revealed inconsistencies in the process of overcoming problems and thought patterns in negative perfectionists, whereas it revealed the use of appropriate methods in overcoming the problems in positive perfectionists.
