The role of gender, academic discipline and time management in predicting students’ verbal creativity at Bu-Ali Sina

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

Abolghasem Yaghoobi ¹ , Hossein Mohagheghi ² , Maryam Mottaghian ³

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Received: 2016-07-05 Accepted : 2016-07-05 Published : 2013-08-23

Keywords: Creativity, time management, verbal creativity, short- term planning,

Abstract :

  Background: creativity and time management for everyone are important issues, and for students of course more important and perhaps more vital. Aims: This study has considered the relationship between creativity and time management in students, the mediating role of gender and field of study. Method: The statistical society included all students of the Bu Ali Sina University in 2012 that 375 of them were selected as pilot group based on stratified method and relative type. They were also tested by two questionnaires of Britton and Tesser's Time Management and Verbal Section (part) of Torrance Creativity Test. Result (s): The result showed a significant and positive relation between creativity and time management, so that the more short- term planning students have, the greater creativity they will create. It can be mentioned, based on the result, short-term planning of male students has stronger connection with Individual Creativity than the female ones. There was positive relation between time attitudes and creativity. Also, score of verbal creativity in the female were higher than male. Conclusion: these findings have some practical implications which will be mentioned in the paper in more details.