Mental Motivation and its relationship to future thinking skills among university students

Abstract

The current research aims to identify:-

1- Mental motivation among university students

2- Future thinking skills of university students and their levels

3- The correlation between mental motivation and future thinking skills among university students

The current research is determined for the students of Al-Mustansiriya University for morning study for the academic year 2021-2022.

    The research included the adoption of the mental motivation scale and the testing of future thinking skills, and after analyzing them logically and statistically and verifying their stability, validity and application on the research sample of (400) male and female students, the following results appeared:

1- University students have a good level of mental motivation. This indicates that the availability of mental motivation among university students is a positive indicator that the university environment is stimulating for future thinking.

2- The results also shows that university students have future thinking skills, and most university students have these skills as a result of the accumulated experience gained from education and other life situations.

3- There is a correlation between mental motivation and future thinking skills among university students.

Based on the results of the current research, some recommendations and suggestions were reached