The Effectiveness of Life Style Instruction on Students’ Creativity

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

Mosa Bandak ¹ , Hasan Maleki ² , Abbas Abbaspour ³ , Soghra Ebrahimi Ghavam ⁴

1 - دانشجوی دکتری رشته برنامه‌ریزی درسی دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی (نویسنده مسئول) [e-mail]
2 - دانشیار گروه مدیریت و برنامه‌ریزی آموزشی دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی [e-mail]
3 - عضو هیئت‌علمی گروه مدیریت و برنامه‌ریزی آمورشی دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی [e-mail]
4 - عضو هیئت‌علمی گروه سنجش و اندازه‌گیری دانشگاه علامه طباطبایی [e-mail]

Received: 2016-06-28 Accepted : 2016-06-28 Published : 2014-07-23

Keywords: Creativity, Life skills, life skills instruction,

Abstract :

  Background: Creativity is one of the most important subjects in education in recent years and therefore educators all over the world are of the belief that it has critical role on development of societies. Objectives: The Purpose of this study was to examine the effectiveness of life styles instruction on students’ creativity. Method: The population of the study included all boy students at the fifth grade of the Bolban Abad city. To select the targeted sample from the population, Abedi’s Creativity Questionnaire was used to collect the required data which was administered to the sample students before and after life styles instruction. The reliability of the questionnaire using Cronbach’s alpha for the subcomponents was 0.61, 0.61, 0.67, 0.75 respectively. Data analysis was conducted through both descriptive and inferential statistics. For inferential statistics, independent t-test was run. Results: The results of the analysis demonstrated that life styles instruction had impact on the students’ creativity. Conclusion: Life styles instruction increases the readiness of student creativity through its positive effects on their self-esteem, and self-awareness, and through decrease in their mental anxiety. This, in turn, results in increased creativity among students.