Cognitive curiosity among university students

Abstract

The current research aims at measuring cognitive curiosity and its facets among university students, identifying the differences in cognitive curiosity and its facets between male and female students, and identifying the differences in cognitive curiosity and its facets between scientific and humanistic specializations. The researcher developed the Slater’s cognitive curiosity scale (2009) and translated it into Arabic. The scale’s reliability and validity have been computed. The results showed that university students have high level of cognitive curiosity. The four facets were high among university students. The results showed that there was no differences between male and female students in cognitive curiosity and its facets with the exception of specific-epistemic curiosity that was higher for males than for females. For the specialization, the results showed no differences in cognitive curiosity and its facets with the exception  of specific-epistemic curiosity in favour of students with  humanistic.