The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between childrns's creativity and sex-role stereotypes at age 6.
The subjects for tis study were 155 six-yeare-old boys and girls selteted from two kindergartens in Seoul. Children were te...
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between childrns's creativity and sex-role stereotypes at age 6.
The subjects for tis study were 155 six-yeare-old boys and girls selteted from two kindergartens in Seoul. Children were tested in groups, with Torrance test of Creative Thinking-Figural A, and individully with the Sex Stereotype Measure(williams, Bennet, & Best, 1975). The data were analyzed aby frequency,percentile,mean,standard deviation,t-test, one way ANOVA,and correlations.
The major findings were as follows:
First, there was a statically significant difference in children' sex-role stereotypes by sex. But no statically signficant difference in children' sex-role stereotypes by birth order was found.
Second, there were statically significant differences in the sub domains of creativity and total creativity score by birth order.
Finally, The sex-role sterotypes were statically significantly related to children's creativity-fluencey, originality, abstractiveness of titles, elaboration, resistance of closure, and total creativity score.