the relationship between types of thinking styles and academic adjustment among nursing students

the relationship between types of thinking styles and academic adjustment among nursing students     zarei ha [1] *, mierhashme m [2]     received: 18 feb, 2012 accepted: 30 may, 2012     abstract:   background & aims : adjustment and its different aspects is considered as a basic and extensive discussions in psychology, therefore identifying of related factors –apart from increasing domains of related knowledge – can cause a reduction in the individual and inter individual problems . the aim of present research was to investigate the relationship between types of thinking style and academic adjustment.   materials & methods : this research was a descriptive and co relational study. the sample study was included 65 nursing students who were studied in islamic azad university, khoy city. the study was conducted using the cluster sampling method within each cluster units were then chosen bysimple random sampling. to gather the data, two standard questionnaires on thinking styles of strenberg and zang and academic adjustment of baker and siryak were used. gathered data were analyzed by statistical methods of correlation test of person and multiple regressions.   result : the results showed that thinking style of judiciary, executive, hierarchy, liberalism, external and the style of the type i had positive significant relationship and thinking style of anarchism had negative significant relationship with academic adjustment.in addition %20.4 of variance academic adjustment based on thinking style was explicable. it was also evident that, there were average high score of academic adjustment among nursing students in this study.   conclusion: based on our research academic adjustment has relationship with the kind of thinking .therefore it seems necessary to notice on the typei thinking style for improvement and promotion of the academic adjustment among nursing students.   key words: thinking academic adjustment nursing students.     address : khoy, km 5 khoy road, salmas islamic asad university, department of educational sciences, tel: (+98) (0461)2550002, 9141635210   email: ali zarei @iaukhoy.ac.ir   [1] ph .d student in educational psychology in islamic azad university rodhen branch(correspond author)  [2] assistant professor of general psychology, islamic azad university roodehenbranch