MENTAL HEALTH AND ITS RELATIONSHIP TO CREATIVE THINKING AMONG FEMALE STUDENTS OF PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND SPORTS SCIENCE
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Mental health, creative thinkingAbstract
This research aims to identify the relationship between mental health and creative thinking among female students in the Department of Physical Education and Sports Sciences at the College of Education for Girls/University of Kufa, given the pivotal role of mental health in developing mental and innovative abilities, and the importance of creative thinking in developing academic and athletic performance. The researcher used the descriptive correlational approach because it is suitable for the nature of the study. The research community included (147) female students from the morning study for the academic year (2023-2024), while the research sample consisted of (110) female students who were randomly selected from the four educational stages .The psychological health scale prepared by Wasal Muhammad Al-Douri (51 items distributed over five domains) and the creative thinking scale developed by Princeton (1989) and Arabized by Nadia Hail Al-Sarur were used, after verifying their validity and reliability statistically using the Spearman-Brown and Cronbach’s alpha coefficients .The results showed a significant positive correlation between mental health and creative thinking at a significance level of (0.05), indicating that a high level of mental health contributes to enhancing creative thinking among female students. The results also showed no significant differences between the four educational stages in both mental health and creative thinking variables, indicating that the educational stage was not an influential factor in these variables, and that the university environment is similar in its psychological and cognitive impact on female students .The study concluded that female students enjoy a good level of mental health and creative thinking. It recommended the integration of educational and guidance programs that contribute to supporting mental health and developing creative thinking skills in academic curricula, and the use of modern educational methods based on dialogue, problems, and cooperative learning in the field of physical education and sports science.
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