Mindfulness and Its Relationship to Certain Variables Among a Sample of Students at the Faculty of Education, Qasr Ben Ghashir – University of Tripoli

Abstract

This research aims to identify mental alertness and its relationship to some variables represented by gender, major, and academic achievement among a sample of students at the Faculty of Education, Qasr Bin Ghashir, University of Tripoli. The research sample consisted of (174) male and female students. The researcher used the mental alertness scale according to Langer's theory (prepared by El-Sayed El-Fadaly and Inas Khuraybah, 2020), which consists of (21) statements distributed across four dimensions (searching for new things, immersion, producing new things, flexibility). The researcher reached a set of results, the most important of which are: the level of mental alertness among students of the Faculty of Education, Qasr Bin Ghashir, University of Tripoli is high in the four dimensions (searching for new things, immersion, producing new things, flexibility); there are statistically significant differences for the responses of the research sample according to the gender variable for the dimension of searching for new things in the mental alertness scale for students of the Faculty of Education, Qasr Bin Ghashir, University of Tripoli in favor of males; there are statistically significant differences between the mean scores for the responses of the research sample according to the major variable for the dimension of producing new things in the mental alertness scale for students of the Faculty of Education, Qasr Bin Ghashir, University of Tripoli in favor of humanities majors; and there are no statistically significant differences for the responses of the research sample regarding the dimensions of mental alertness (searching for new things, immersion, producing new things, flexibility, the total score of the scale) among students of the Faculty of Education, Qasr Bin Ghashir, Uni versity of Tripoli according to the academic achievement.