The Predictive Ability of the Need for Cognition of Academic Boredom among University Students

Abstract

This study aimed to know the level of the need for cognition and academic boredom in light of the variables of sex and academic specialization, and to know the predictive ability for the need for cognition of academic boredom. To achieve the objectives of the study, the need for cognition scale developed by Cacioppo et al. (1984) and the academic boredom scale developed by Al-Surti (2008) were used. The study sample consisted of (368) male and female students from the Hashemite University, chosen by convenience method. The results of the study indicated that the level of need for cognition was high, while academic boredom was medium, and that there were statistically significant differences in the level of need for cognition due to the variables of sex and academic specialization, in favor of males and scientific specializations. The results also indicated that the need for cognition contributed to predicting of about (21.3%) of the variance explained by academic boredom.