Immediate thinking and its relationship to future self-expectations among intermediate school students

Abstract

The aim of this research is to identify the immediate thinking among intermediate school students and the future self-expectations among intermediate school students and the correlation between immediate thinking and future self-expectations among intermediate school students. The research community consisted of intermediate stage students in intermediate and secondary schools in the center of Diwaniyah Governorate. To achieve the objectives of the current research, the researcher built two tools: the instant thinking scale (22) paragraphs and the future self-expectations scale (28) paragraphs distributed over the fields (hoped, expected, and feared). After verifying their psychometric properties, she applied them to the research sample of (200) female students from intermediate stage students in intermediate and secondary schools in Diwaniyah Governorate. They were randomly selected from 4 intermediate schools for the academic year (2023-2024). The research results indicated the presence of instant thinking and future self-expectations among female students and the presence of a strong direct correlation between instant thinking and future self-expectations. In light of the results of the current research, recommendations were made, including holding educational courses and workshops for intermediate stage students to help them reach the highest possible level of self and spreading awareness among students through academic guidance units in understanding future self-expectations in their fields (hoped, expected, and feared). She suggested conducting more studies. To identify the relationship between immediate thinking and other variables such as (self-regulation, self-efficacy, psychological empowerment).