Critical Thinking and Its Relationship to Open-Mindedness among Al-Mustansiriya University Students

Abstract

Possible, the weakness of critical thinking among individuals makes them accept all ideas and opinions without thinking, and thus submit to anyone who wants to exploit them, and this may negatively affect many psychological traits, especially open-mindedness. To achieve the objectives of the research, the application was applied to 350 male and female students from Al-Mustansiriya University in order to answer the scale of critical thinking and open-mindedness. The results indicated the presence of critical thinking among the sample and no differences in the demographic variables according to critical thinking, in addition to their possession of open-mindedness and the absence of differences in the demographic variables. In addition to the presence of a significant positive correlation between the two variables. On this basis, a number of recommendations and proposals were made