Attentional Control and its relationship to Creative Thinking among Postgraduate Students at the Faculty of Sports Science, Al-Azhar University

The study aims to investigate the relationship between attentional control and creative thinking among postgraduate students at the Faculty of Sports Science, Al-Azhar University. It also seeks to identify the levels of attentional control and creative thinking among these students. The researcher employed the descriptive method. The research sample was selected intentionally. The pilot sample consisted of 60 male and female students (25 from the first year and 35 from the second year). The main sample included 165 students (75 from the first year and 90 from the second year). The researcher used the following tools: (Attentional Control Scale and Creative Thinking Scale), both designed by the researcher. The key findings were as follows: The level of attentional control among postgraduate students at was high in the dimensions of "sustaining attention under pressure" and "the ability to ignore distractions," and moderate in the dimensions of "focus and attention," "task switching," and in the overall scale. The level of creative thinking among the students was moderate in all dimensions: flexibility, originality and innovation, idea fluency, and thinking outside the box, as well as in the overall scale. There was a positive correlation between attentional control and creative thinking among the postgraduate students. Statistically significant differences were found based on academic level in favor of second-year students. Statistically significant differences were found based on gender in favor of male students in the overall attentional control scale. Statistically significant differences were also found based on academic level in favor of second-year students.