Predictive Ability of Mindfulness in Cognitive Flexibility among a Sample of University Students

Abstract

The present study aims to determine the predictive ability of mindfulness for cognitive flexibility in a sample of college students in the city of Irbid. The study included (1762) students. The result of the study shows that there was a difference in the hymnal mean scores of the study participants’ responses on the cognitive flexibility scale according to the gender variable in favor of females and in the variable of years of study in favor of first- and fifth-year students, and the variable of specialization in favor of the humanities. For the GPA variable, however, in favor of students with the excellent mean. The result of the study indicates that there is a difference in the response of the study participants on the mindfulness scale depending on the gender variable in favor of males and in the variable of specialization in favor of humanities, while there were no significant differences depending on the variables of years of study and GPA on the mindfulness scale. Regarding the study variables predicting cognitive flexibility, it was found that for both genders, respectively: Curiosity and decentering.