Self Control And Its Relationship To Epistemological Beliefs Among University Students

Abstract

The current research aims to identify self-control and cognitive beliefs among university students and the correlation between them. To achieve this, the resarcher adopted the Self-Control Scale (Fayyad, 2017), consisting of 32 items in its final form, with five alternatives for each item. The researcher also adopted the Cognitive Beliefs Scale (Abu Khumra, 2016), consisting of 46 items in its final form, with responses to each item conssting of five alternatives. After statistical procedures, the psychometric properties of the research sample of 400 male and female students from Al-Mustansiriya University, selected ranomly, were calculated. After collecting and statistically processing the data, the researcher arrived at the following results:

- University stdents possess self-control.

- University students possess cognitive beliefs.

- There is a significant positive correlation between self-conrol and cognitive beliefs.

Based on the research findings, several recommendations and suggestions for future reserch were developed.