The Relative Contribution of Mental Alertness to Solving Social Problems among University Students

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قسم عــلــم النفس التعليمي والإحصاء التربوي کلية التربية بالدقهلية ـ جامعة الأزهر.

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The present research aimed to predict social problem solving through the five dimensions of mindfulness (observation, description, act with awareness, non-judgment and non-reactive), and to identify the dimensions that most contribute to predict social problems. 91 third year technology department male students, Faculty of Education in Daqahliyah, Al-Azhar University, completed the research instruments, namely the five-facet mindfulness questionnaire (FFMQ; Baer et al., 2006) and the social problem-solving inventory revised (SPSI-R; D'Zurilla et al., 2002). Findings revealed that it is possible to predict social problem solving through description and to act with awareness and non-judgment. The most contributory dimension is act with awareness (20.9%), followed by description (3.6%) then non-judgment (3.5%). However, it is not possible to predict social problem solving through observation and non-reactive. 

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