A master's thesis at the College of Education for Humanities at the University of Basra examined attentional control and its relationship to cognitive flexibility among educational counselors. The thesis, presented by researcher Ahmed Jabbar Daboul, aimed to identify attentional control and cognitive flexibility among educational counselors, the correlation between attentional control and cognitive flexibility among educational counselors, and the significance of differences in the correlation between attentional control and cognitive flexibility according to the gender variable (male-female) among educational counselors. The thesis included findings that educational counselors possess attentional control and cognitive flexibility, and that there is a positive, direct correlation between attentional control and cognitive flexibility among educational counselors. There were no statistically significant differences in the correlation between attentional control and cognitive flexibility among educational counselors according to the gender variable (male-female)

