Gyanodaya: The Journal of Progressive Education
  • Year: 2010
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue: 1

Creativity and personality dimension (extroversion-introversion) of higher secondary students

  • Author:
  • Prema Sharma1, Shalini Chauhan2
  • Total Page Count: 7
  • Page Number: 51 to 57

1Dept. of Education, VML PG College, Ghaziabad, UP.

2VML PG College, Ghaziabad, UP.

Abstract

The present study is an effort to find out the relationship between creativity and personal trait-extroversion and introversion. Extroversion-Introversion is a prime dimension of personality, So the teacher can identify Extroverts and Introverts easily in his classroom by there different habits and if there would any significant relationship between these personality trait and creativity, the teacher can guess for some extent, the creativity level on the basis of Extroversion-Introversion. That is the basic reason behind the present study done by the investigator. In the present study simple random sampling technique was employed. Four schools were randomly selected, the total number of students taken for the Extroversion-Introversion test comes to be 100. Out of these 100 students 86 were found average and 14 were Introvert and Extrovert. Baquer mehdi creativity verbal test, the Neymen-Kohilstedt Diagnostic test for introversion-extroversion (Indian Adaptation by Dr. Jai Prakash) have been used in the present investigation. This research denies any relationship between creativity of extroverts and introverts, which will help all the person related to the student personality development.

Keywords

Creativity, Personality, Extrovert, Introvert