The Relationship of the Habits of Mind, Creative Thinking, and the Tendency towards Swimming among Students, Using the Path Analysis Model

Abstract

The habits of the mind are among the important variables related to the emotional and cognitive aspects of thinking. Their practice by the individual is necessary to produce his various thinking skills. The mental habit of a particular individual means that he prefers a certain thinking style over other patterns, and it also contributes to the regulation of the individual’s practices of thinking skills and make them. More flexible, and among the most important of those skills is creative thinking. Since the study of personality is completed by studying the measurement of emotions, and the integration of personality in its various dimensions represents an integrated unity, we need to know the tendencies of the individual just as we need to know the level of his intelligence, abilities and preparations, as the individual has the intelligence and abilities that qualify him for success in a certain area, but not He tends to her and does not like her. Modeling by structural equation represents the most effective and reliable method among the known methodologies in social and human sciences studies to treat and study various phenomena, especially psychological and educational studies, by developing and designing theoretical models and testing their validity, in describing the intertwining relationships and connections between the problematic elements of the phenomenon or between it and other phenomena. A quantitative description, and its interpretation of a comprehensive, objective interpretation without fragmentation of the interconnected relationships. The importance of the current research lies in the representation of the relationship between the habits of the mind and creative thinking and the tendency towards swimming in middle school students, and simulating that relationship through a theoretical model, which is an artificially symbolic expression or conception of the problem of the current research in a way that helps good visualization as a basis for appropriate decision-making.