Effectiveness of training on some of the systemic thinking skills in attitude toward Prejudice among Azhar secondary school students.

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Lecturer in Educational Psychology - College of Humanities

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The aim of the research was to identify the effectiveness of a training program based on some of the systemic thinking skills in reducing the attitude toward  Prejudice among Azhar secondary school students in the Azhar region institutes in Kafr El-Sheikh. The sample of the survey consisted of 220 students, while the basic sample consisted of (33) (The training program - the systematic thinking scale - the measure of Attitude toward  Prejudice - the measure of the effectiveness of experimental treatment), and after the use of the design of the experimental group. The application of the tribal tools of research was applied to the training program and the measure of the effectiveness of experimental treatment, and then the application of remote tools research, and after a month from the end of the application of the program was applied measure of the trend towards intolerance in a follow-up application and using the appropriate statistical methods, the researcher reached several results, including: differences between the averages of degrees The empirical and empirical measures of the experimental group in the overall degree and the following dimensions (bias-impulse, self-centeredness, cognitive distortion, intellectual rigidity, aggression), the attitude toward  Prejudice among Azhar secondary school students,. There were no differences between the average of the distance and the follow-up measurements of the experimental group in the total score of the trend toward intolerance among Azhar secondary school students.

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