Some self-regulation skills as predictors of mind wandering among students of the second cycle of basic education with science learning disabilities

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قسم الصحة النفسية، كلية التربية بنين بالقاهرة، جامعة الأزهر

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    The research aimed to predict mind wandering through some self-regulation skills, and to detect differences between males and females in each of the self-regulation skills and mind wandering of a sample of students in the second cycle of basic education with science learning disabilities. The research sample consisted of (218) male and female students (122 males, 96 females) with disabilities in learning sciences in the preparatory stage in Dakahlia Governorate, whose ages ranged between (13-14) years. With an average age of (13.40), and a standard deviation of (0.36). the participants completed the study on the diagnostic measures of learning disabilities represented in: Raven's Colored Progressive Matrices: Raven's preparation (translation and codification: Emad Hassan, 2016); Rapid Neurological Scan Test (Arabization and Codification: Abdel Wahhab Kamel, 1989); The learning disabilities test in science (prepared by the researcher). the self-regulation skills scale, the mind wandering scale, and both scales were prepared by the researcher. The results of the study showed: Mind wandering can be predicted through some self-regulation skills (planning, self-monitoring, Stimulus Control, self-evaluation) of the study sample. There are also no statistically significant differences between the mean scores of males and the mean scores of females on the two scales of self-regulation skills and mind wandering among pupils of the second cycle of basic education with science learning disabilities.

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