Introduction: The present study aimed to study the components of philosophical thinking from the viewpoint of contemporary thinkers in the form of constructing and evaluating the validity and reliability of the philosophical thinking questionnaire. Philosophical thinking is a conscious attempt to discover and explain the meaning and concept of the world and life, and the relation of man to it and the result of the question.
Methods: This study is a mixed study. The statistical population in the qualitative section consisted of all contemporary thinkers and in the quantitative section, consisted of all the high school teachers in Khoy city which were 1056 people. The sample size was estimated according to the analysis method and using a simple random method, 228. To determine the content validity of the questionnaire qualitatively were used from ideas of five experts of this field. For data analysis, exploratory factor analysis and second-order confirmatory factor analysis were used with maximum exponential method.
Results: The results at the level of analysis of the questions showed that all questions with their component, except for the inventive component, have an appropriate load factor (> 0.40). Also, the results showed that the general construct of philosophical thinking with the mediating component had the highest impact factor (0.88) and the least-coefficient coefficient with the inventor component (0.63). The results of the analysis indicated that the fitting model was designed with experimental data and the validity of the philosophical thinking structure was confirmed both at the level of the questions and at the component level.
Conclusions: In this study, 10 main components of philosophical thinking were obtained. The results of this study showed that the philosophical thinking questionnaire with high validity is a valid tool for application in educational and psychological researches.