Attention Control for Postgraduate Students

Kh. Rashid, Mohammed; Ammal Saleh, Safi

doi:10.37653/juah.2021.171565

	Attention Control for Postgraduate Students
Journal of University of Anbar for Humanities
Article 33, Volume 2021, Issue 1, March 2021, Pages 882-913 PDF (919.24 K)
DOI: 10.37653/juah.2021.171565
Authors
Mohammed Kh. Rashid; Safi Ammal Saleh
Abstract
The aims of the research are:1- Attention control of postgraduate students.2- The significance of the differences in attention control according to the variables of the type (male, female) and specialization (scientific, humanistic) among postgraduate students.The researcher has adopted the relational descriptive approach in his research. The sample of the research consists of (276) male and female students from postgraduate students at Anbar University for the academic year 2019-2020, and the sample was chosen according to the Stephen Thompson equation.He also adopted a measure of the attention control Eysenck & Calvo (1992). It consists of (3) fields with (48) items that have five graded alternatives. The researcher has verified the validity of the apparent scale and the validity of the scale construction by finding the correlation between the degree of the item and the overall degree of the scale, and the relation between the item and the field that belongs to. The stability of the scale has been verified by two methods: (test - retest).After completing the application of the two measures on the participants of the sample under the supervision of the researcher, the results show:1. Postgraduate students are characterized by attention control with high-level.2. There is no statistically significant difference according to the type variable (male, female) in the attention control.3. There is no statistically significant difference according to the specialty variable (scientific, human) in the attention control.prison.
Keywords
Attention control; postgraduate students

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