Thinking styles and Its Relations with personality Traits at College Students

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the study aimedto understand students Thinking styles and Its Relation with personality Traits  sample contained( 173students) from south valley university (73male and100 female) using Sternberg's (1990): "Thinking styles Scale and . The Development of Five – Factor Domain Scales (Goldberg 1999) results showed that: students (total subject) thinking styles preferences was Hierarchic External Oligarchic. Males prefer external where females Hierarchic.
  Also results refer to significant positive relation between Thinking styles (Judicial Global Legislative Liberal Hierarchic External) personality traits (Extraversion and Openness Conscientiousness) .also between Executive Local Conservation and Neuroticism .
There are significant differences for female in Thinking styles (Executive Conservation Global Oligarchic Hierarchic).