Studying the Effect of Critical Thinking and Creative Thinking on Learning Self-Regulation with the Mediation of Emotional Intelligence

The purpose of this research was to study the effect of critical thinking and creative thinking on learning self-regulation with the mediation of emotional intelligence.

The present research method was applied in terms of objective, quantitative in nature, and descriptive in terms of correlation type (structural equation model). The statistical population of the research was all the students of the second year of elementary school in the 2nd district of Ardabil in the academic year of 2022-2023, whose number was about 13500, and 374 of them were selected as a statistical sample using stratified random sampling. The data collection tools were the Rajaee's Critical Thinking Questionnaire, the Welch and McDowall's Creative Thinking Questionnaire, the Schutte et al.'s Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire, and the Bouffard et al.'s Self-Regulated Learning Questionnaire.

The findings indicated that all the absolute, comparative and parsimonious indicators of the model are favorable and critical thinking and creative thinking can have an effect on self-regulation learning both directly and indirectly by considering the mediating role of emotional intelligence (p<0.05).

Finally, it is suggested to draw the attention of families and schools to strengthening critical thinking and creative thinking. Also, with the development of emotional intelligence in students under the format of codified and continuous programs, he took a step towards increasing their self-regulation learning.