Fictional writing skills and their relationship to mental flexibility among fourth grade science students

Abstract

The current research aims to identify: Imaginative writing skills and their relationship to mental flexibility among fourth-grade science students. The number of members of this sample was (200) students, at a rate of (15%) of the total community of (1340) fourth-grade science students in schools affiliated with the General Directorate of Education in Babylon (Al-Musayyab District) for the academic year (2023-2024). In order to achieve the research objectives, the researcher prepared two tools for testing imaginative writing skills and a measure of mental flexibility. The researcher extracted the psychometric properties of the two tools, and then applied them to the research sample, and used the appropriate statistical treatments for the research. The results for the first goal showed a difference in the research sample between the average scores of the students of the research sample in imaginative writing skills, as the research sample had imaginative writing skills. The results for the second goal showed a difference between the average scores of the students of the research sample in mental flexibility, and it appeared that the research sample had mental flexibility. As for the third goal, Pearson's correlation coefficient was extracted between imaginative writing skills and mental flexibility; The correlation coefficient reached (0.42) and to know the relationship and its significance, the calculated T-value of (9.64) was extracted, which is greater than the tabular value of (1.96), at a significance level of (0.05). These results indicate a significant correlation between imaginative writing skills and mental flexibility of the research sample. Therefore, the researcher recommended, in light of the results, a number of recommendations, including: working to benefit from the research results in teaching the Arabic language and its teaching methods.

He suggested a number of proposals, including: conducting a study on the relationship between creative writing skills and mental flexibility among fifth-grade scientific female students.