Mental wandering and its relationship to attention control among university students

Abstract

Research summary: The current research aims to identify:

1-Mental wandering among university students 2- Attentioncontrol among universitey students. 3- The relationship between mental wandering and attention control among university students. 4- The difference in the relationship among university students: accoerding to a- the gender variable (males - females) b- according to the specialization variable) Scientific-human), and the results of the current research reached the following: 1- University students have mental wandering associated with the task, and mental wandering that is not related to the task. 2- University students have attentive control 3- There is no relationship between mental wandering associated with task and attention control among university students, and there is a statistically significant relationship between mental wandering that is not related to the task 4- There are no statistically significant differences of mental wandering related to the task and attention control depending on the gender variable ( Male-female), and there are statistically significant differences in the relationship according to the specialization variable according to the human specialization, and there are statistically significant differences in the relationship between mental wandering and not related to the task according to the gender variable in favor of males, and there are statistically significant differences according to the specialization variable in favor of human specialization In light of the above, the researcher presented some recommendations and proposals for future research