Year: 2021 | Month: December | Volume 11 | Issue 2
Social Behaviours of Creative Students
Karuna Shankar Misra
DOI:10.30954/2231-4105.02.2021.5
Abstract:
Creative persons innovate to solve problems of varied nature. Like other individuals they also face pleasant and adverse social situations in which they try to learn how to behave to maintain their equilibrium. Usually the creative students cause embarrassment to society, parents and teachers due to their tendency to be uncommon. The present study attempts to find out how creativity is related to various social behaviours, and whether students differing with respect to gender and creativity differ in their social behaviours. Sample consisted of 525 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. ‘Social Behaviour Questionnaire’ of S.K. Pal, K.S. Misra and M. Gupta was used for measuring social behaviours. Product moment coefficient of correlation and two-way (3×2) ANOVA were used for data analysis. It was found that highly creative students exhibit more concern for others but less compliance, dependence, power of assertion, ingratiation, social conversation, social passivity, aggression, and withdrawal; students with different levels of creativity do not differ in their tolerance; creativity among boys as well as girls is positively related to concern for others but it is negatively related to dependence, power assertion, ingratiation, social passivity, aggression and withdrawal; gender differences exist in relationships between various aspects of creativity and social behaviour.
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