Orientations of Goals and their Relationship to the Ability to Solve Problems Among a Sample of Private University Students in the North of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Al -Kanany, Reem

doi:10.21608/jsre.2023.202630.1549

Orientations of Goals and their Relationship to the Ability to Solve Problems Among a Sample of Private University Students in the North of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

Document Type : Original Article

Author

Reem Al -Kanany

Co-professor of Special Education /Faculty educational sciences/ Ajloun National University, The Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan

10.21608/jsre.2023.202630.1549

Abstract

The study aimed to reveal the relationship between the orientations of goals and the problem-solving strategy, in addition to knowing the pattern of goals adopted by university students, and the degree of their use of the problem-solving strategy in the light of the variables of gender and college. The study sample consisted of (136) male and female students (76) males and (60) females, their ages ranged between (19-23) years, with an average age of 21 years and a standard deviation (2.6), from private university students in the north of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan who responded to the study measures. The scale of goals patterns by) Elliot & Church ،1997) and the problem-solving scale prepared by Nazia Hamdy (1998). The results showed that the pattern of goals (enablement) is the most common pattern. And that males adopt a pattern of goals (performance-entrepreneurship), while females tend to adopt a pattern of goals (empowerment), The students of the College of Science adopted a pattern of goals (empowerment), while the results showed that the students of the College of Education adopted a pattern of goals (performance - courage). The results also showed that there is a strong positive significant correlation between the pattern of empowerment goals and the problem-solving strategy, and a strong negative correlation between the pattern of performance-avoidance goals and the problem-solving strategy. In light of the results, a set of recommendations were presented.

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Educational psychology

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