Psychological disability and its relationship to cognitive failure among middle school students

Abstract

The student who feels psychologically helpless is unable to cope with the psychological pressures resulting from personal, social and economic circumstances, which leads to the student being exposed to a cognitive failure in achieving it.

Therefore, the current research targeted the following:

Knowing the level of feeling of psychological helplessness among middle school students and the significance of statistical differences according to the gender variable (male - female).

And identifying the level of cognitive failure of high school students, and the significance of statistical differences in cognitive failure according to the gender variable (male - female).

Is there a relationship between psychological deficits and cognitive failure among middle school students? The current research was limited to middle school students of both sexes in Anbar Governorate, Ramadi District. The researcher adopted the steps of the correlational descriptive approach. The current research community consisted of (63605) male and female students, and the sample was chosen randomly, as the research sample reached (120) male and female students, and in order to achieve the objectives of the research, a measure of psychological disability prepared by the researcher and a measure of cognitive failure of (Broadbent, 1982) were used, and he translated it and prepared its current image (Al-Khailani, 2008), after processing the data by appropriate statistical

means. The following results showed:

1- The level of feelings of psychological helplessness is higher than the average among the sample members, and there are no differences attributed to gender

2- The level of cognitive failure is higher than the average for the sample, and there are no differences attributed to the gender.

3- There is a positive direct relationship between psychological deficit and cognitive failure among the sample members.

From these results the researcher made a number of recommendations and proposals