The research aims to build cognitive distortions among female students of some faculties of physical education and sports sciences for swimming subject in (Kurdistan Region - Iraq).The research community is represented by the female students of the faculties of physical education and sports sciences, represented by (206) female students Distributors of the faculties of physical education and sports sciences in some universities of the Kurdistan Region - Iraq.The construction sample was chosen by the intentional method, consisting of (108) students from the total research community, i.e. (52.42%) of the total research community.
Through the researchers’ briefing on Arab and foreign scientific sources, research and studies, and within the limits of their knowledge, it was found that there is no measurement of cognitive distortions in swimming for female students. Therefore, the researchers decided to build a measure of cognitive distortions for female students in order for the swimming teacher to use it to know the percentage of cognitive distortions among students.
The researchers used the scientific procedures used to build the scale, as well as a number of statistical methods to treat the results obtained, such as (arithmetic mean, standard deviation, t-test, Pearson correlation coefficient).The researchers reached to construct a scale of cognitive distortions for female students in the faculties of physical education and sports sciences, which has high scientific coefficients (veracity and stability), which allows it to be used in the research community. (blaming oneself and others, unfair comparison, exaggeration and underestimation, helplessness.)The researchers recommended the use of the scale in identifying the cognitive distortions of the students while they were taking the swimming course, as well as the recommendation to use this scale in examining the relationship between cognitive distortions and a number of other variables.