Relationship between thinking style and self consistency and congruence in university students

Abstract

Objective This paper is aimed at exploring the correlations between thinking style and self consistency and congruence in university students.Methods 367 university students were tested by the questionnaires of the Chinese Thinking Style Scale and Self Consistency and Congruence Scale.Results There were signiflcant difierence between major(F=3.89,P＜0.05;F=3.35,P＜0.05),and weren't between gender.Contradiction and change thinking could predict self consistency and congruence significantly(R2=0.12,F=8.75,P＜0.01).The change thinking had positive effect on total,disharmony of self and experience,self-stiffness(β=-0.44,β=0.37,β=0.25,β=0.36),but a negative one on self-flexibility.Contradiction had positive effect on total (β=0.28).Conclusion Thinking style can predict univemity students'self consistency and congruence to some extent. Key words: Thinking style ; Self consistency and congruence ; University students ;