The Effect of Developing Positive Thinking in Reducing Intellectual Extremism among a Sample of Adolescents

Abstract

The current study aimed to verify the effectiveness of a psychological counseling program in developing positive thinking among a sample of adolescents in the secondary stage, and its impact on reducing the severity of their intellectual extremism. The main study sample consisted of (45) male and female adolescents of high intellectual extremism in secondary school in Cairo Governorate, experimental group of (23) male and female students, and the other is a control group of (22) male and female students as well. And by applying the Cattell test of intelligence, and the scale of the socio-economic level of the family, in addition to the two scales of positive thinking and intellectual extremism among adolescents in the stage Secondary school, as well as a counseling program for developing positive thinking,. The study found the effectiveness of the counseling program in developing positive thinking among the experimental group, where the impact of the program was large, which in turn led to reducing the severity of intellectual extremism among them.