THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN TYPES OF THINKING STYLES AND ACADEMIC ADJUSTMENT AMONG NURSING STUDENTS

Adjustment and its different aspects is considered as a basic and extensive
discussions in psychology, therefore identifying of related factors –apart from increasing domains of
related knowledge – can cause a reduction in the individual and inter individual problems . The aim
of present research was to investigate the relationship between types of thinking style and academic
adjustment.
Materials & Methods: This research was a descriptive and co relational study. The sample study was
included 65 nursing students who were studied in Islamic Azad University, khoy city. The study was
conducted using the cluster sampling method within each cluster units were then chosen bysimple
random sampling. To gather the data, two standard questionnaires on thinking styles of Strenberg and
Zang and academic adjustment of Baker and Siryak were used. Gathered data were analyzed by
statistical methods of correlation test of person and multiple regressions.
Result: The results showed that thinking style of judiciary, executive, hierarchy, liberalism, external
and the style of the type I had positive significant relationship and thinking style of anarchism had
negative significant relationship with academic adjustment.In addition %20.4 of variance academic
adjustment based on thinking style was explicable. It was also evident that, there were average high
score of academic adjustment among nursing students in this study.
Conclusion: Based on our research academic adjustment has relationship with the kind of thinking
.Therefore it seems necessary to notice on the typeI thinking style for improvement and promotion of
the academic adjustment among nursing students