Comparison of the Developing Process of Female and Male Students’ Creativity in High and Low Regions

Subject Areas : Creativity and innovation from psychological, epistemological, educational and pedagogical

Zahra Bagherzadeh Golmakani ¹ , Shokouh Alsadat Banijamali ² , Ali Akbar Saif ³

1 - دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، واحد علوم و تحقیقات، گروه روانشناسی، تهران، ایران [e-mail]
2 - دانشگاه الزهرا، دانشیار گروه روانشناسی، تهران، ایران dr banijamali@ alzahra.ac.ir
3 - دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، واحد علوم و تحقیقات، استاد گروه روانشناسی، تهران، ایران Ali Akbar [e-mail]

Received: 2016-05-07 Accepted : 2016-05-07 Published : 2017-01-20

Keywords: gender, Creativity, development, High and low regions,

Abstract :

    Background: Creativity is the driving force of modern civilization forward and respond to the problems that are associated with the fast technological and social changes. So the growth and development of the creativity is a priority for educational systems in the world.      Purpose: The aim of the present study was to investigate and compare the development of the students’ creativity in two socio-economic regions of Mashhad.      Method: The method of this research is descriptive-developmental and cross-sectional designs. A sample of 1273 students (629boys &644 girls aged 13-18 years) was selected randomly from the various public schools. Abedi Creativity Test (TC) was used for data collection.      Result: The result revealed that the socio-economic status had a significant relationship with the development of the creativity. The most and the least means were achieved in rich and poor regions. The creativity develops by an increase in age with two significant declines in both rich and poor regions with a little bit differences. The scores of boys and girls in the development of the creativity did not show a significant difference.      Conclusion:The findings suggest the necessity of enhancement of the attention to the development of the creativity.

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