The relationship between resilience and cognitive flexibility in students of Islamic Azad University, Ayatollah Amoli branch

Subject Areas : Educational Science

Somaie Abbaspour ¹ ()
shabanali bagherian ² (بازنشسته اموزش و پرورش)

Received: 2024-04-22 Published : 2024-06-23

Keywords: Cognitive flexibility, resilience, students,

Abstract :

The purpose of this research was to investigate the relationship between resilience and cognitive flexibility among students of Islamic Azad University, Ayatollah Amoli branch. The present research method was descriptive-correlation type of structural equations. The statistical population of this research included all undergraduate students of Ayatollah Amoli branch of Islamic Azad University in the academic year of 2011-1402, of which 250 people were selected as a multi-stage cluster sampling for the sample size. were selected as research samples. Dennis and Vanderwaal (2010) cognitive flexibility questionnaires and Kanozer and Davison (2003) resilience questionnaires were used to collect data. In order to analyze the data, statistical methods based on structural equations and Pearson's correlation coefficient and regression analysis were used with the help of SPSS and Amos version 24 software. The findings showed that there is a significant relationship between resilience and cognitive flexibility in students. Also, the goodness of fit indices of the data indicated the appropriate fit of the model.

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