Cognitive method (risk / caution) and its relationship to the level of ambition among a sample of third-year students in the Faculties of Education and Human Medicine at the University of Damascus

Abstract

The aim of the current research is to identify the cognitive method (risk or caution) prevailing and the level of ambition of the members of the research sample of third-year students in the Faculties of Education and Human Medicine at the University of Damascus. And the study of the correlation between the cognitive style (risk / caution) and the level of ambition of the members of the research sample. And the detection of differences between the mean scores of the answers of the research sample on the cognitive method scale (risk / caution) and the measure of ambition according to the two research variables: (gender, academic specialization). The research was based on the descriptive and analytical approach. The researcher used the cognitive method scale (risk / caution), consisting of (32) items prepared by Hazima Abdul Majeed (2008), and she used the Aspiration Scale, consisting of (40) items, and the sample included (277) One of the third year students in the Faculties of Education and Human Medicine, University of Damascus. Among the most important results of the research: The presence of a negative and indicative correlation between the risk-taking style and the level of ambition of the research sample. There is a positive and significant correlation between caution and the level of ambition among the subjects of the research sample. There were no statistically significant differences between the averages of the scores of the respondents of the research sample on the cognitive style scale (risk / caution) according to the two variables: (gender, and academic specialization). And the presence of statistically significant differences between the mean scores of the respondents of the research sample on the scale of ambition according to the gender variable in favor of females. There are statistically significant differences between the mean scores of the respondents of the research sample on the scale of ambition according to the variable of academic specialization in favor of students of the College of Medicine.