Year: 2021 | Month: June | Volume 11 | Issue 1
A Study of Academic Motivation in Relation to Creativity
Karuna Shankar Misra
DOI:10.30954/2231-4105.01.2021.8
Abstract:
Education should not only develop conceptual understanding but also foster creative thinking. So, knowledge acquisition and learning to think creatively should go hand in hand. This study attempts to find out whether academic motivation is related to creativity and students with different levels of creativity differ in their academic motivation. Sample consisted of 825 students including 272 boys and 253 girls studying in eighth class. Mehdi’s test of ‘Thinking Creatively with Words’ was used for measuring creativity as well as fluency, flexibility, and originality dimensions of it. ‘Academic Motivation Inventory’ of J. P. Srivastava was used for measuring academic motivation. Product moment coefficient of correlation and two-way(3x2) ANOVA were used to analyze the data. It was found that creativity and academic motivation are positively related; female students are more academically motivated than male students; students with high creativity are more academically motivated than those with moderate or low creativity; and students with high creativity are more academically motivated than those with low creativity.
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