Proactive thinking and its relationship to initiative for personal growth among students of Kindergarten Department

Abstract

Abstract:

     The current research aims to identify proactive thinking and its relationship to the initiative for personal growth among the students of the Kindergarten Department. The research was based on the descriptive approach. The researcher built a measure of proactive thinking after reviewing the theories and previous studies related to the subject of her research, and the test of proactive thinking in its final form consisted of (30) items, The researcher adopted the Initiative Scale for Personal Growth of (Robitschek, 2008), The initiative scale for personal growth, in its final form, included (16) items which was translated and adapted to the Iraqi environment by (Assaad and Talak, 2020) and the researcher verified the standard psychometric characteristics of the two research tools, and the researcher reached the following results:

- The kindergarten students are distinguished by proactive thinking.

- The kindergarten students are distinguished by the initiative for personal growth.

- There is a correlation between proactive thinking and initiative for personal growth among kindergarten students, and it appears through the value of the correlation coefficient.