Abstract

Mental wandering is the failure of some students to maintain their focus on their own thoughts and activities related to the current task, and this failure is due to a portion of external and internal stimuli that interfere to attract attention away from the task, and this is what prompted the current researcher to know mental wandering among students of Al-Qadisiyah University, and the differences According to the gender (male-female) and specialization (scientific-human), and to achieve this, the researcher adopted the mental wandering scale (The Elephant, 2018) after its psychometric characteristics were extracted, and the scale was applied to a sample of (400) students from Al-Qadisiyah University in Iraq The results found that students at Qadisiyah University had a mental wandering related to the topic and another not related to the topic. The research recommended the necessity of holding seminars and courses dealing with learning about mental wandering and ways to get rid of it, and the necessity of sustaining innovative approaches in teaching students and moving away from classical methods.