The Predictive Ability of Thinking Styles in Psychological Capital among Female University Students

Abstract

Objectives: This study aimed to reveal the predictive ability of thinking styles in psychological capital, the existing styles of thinking, and the level of psychological capital among female university students.

 Methodology: the study was conducted according to the predictive-descriptive approach, the Sternberg and Wagner ,1994 Thinking Styles Scale and the Luthans and Youssef ,2004 Psychological Capital Scale. The study sample was randomly selected and consisted of (624) female students from Princess Alia University College.

 Results :The results showed that the prevailing thinking styles came from the most common to the least common in the following order: legislative, judicial, traditional, hierarchical, executive, internal, liberal, anarchic, local, oligathric, global, external, and monarchic. Also, the results revealed that the level of psychological capital was high. Moreover, the results indicated that the anarchist, liberal, monarchical, legislative, and judicial predicted the psychological capital, respectively, and explained (37.9%) of the variance.

Keywords: Styles of thinking, Psychological capital, Mental self-government, Female university student.