ADAPTIVE COGNITIVE SCHEMAS FOR MIDDLE SCHOOL STUDENTS

The aim of the research is to measure the level of the non-adaptive cognitive schemas among the students without a father, to know the significance of the differences in the non-adaptive cognitive schemas for the middle school students in Hamdania according to the male/female gender variable. Measuring the level of non-adaptive cognitive schemas among ordinary students. The researcher relied on the five fields identified by Jeffrey Young in the year (2003). The researcher carried out the apparent validity and structural validity, and the discrimination sample was withdrawn by (400) of both sexes, and the scores were arranged from the highest degree to the lowest degree, so the discriminatory power of the paragraph was calculated using the t-test for two independent samples, and it was found that the calculated T-value ranged between (0.944-12.235). (10) paragraphs were deleted, so the number of paragraphs in the final form became (65) paragraphs, and the retest reliability coefficient was calculated, whose value was (0.80) and Cronbachs alpha, whose value was (0.84), so the scale is ready to be applied to the basic sample, knowing that the highest degree is (325), the lowest score (65), and the hypothetical mean (195). The basic sample amounted to (58) male and female students who lost their father, and (58) male and female students from the ordinary students.