The main purpose of this study was to explore the relationship between life experiences, creative personality and creative thinking of college students in Taiwan. Investigation method was employed in the study. The employed instruments included College Student Life Experiences Questionnaire, Creativity Test (Verbal-bamboo chopsticks, figure-¤H), and Creative Personality Scale developed by H. G. Gough (1978). The participants were college students in Taiwan. 2443 college students were sampled to finish College Student Life Experiences Questionnaire, and 456 students of them also had to finish Creativity Test and Creative Personality Scale at the same time. The data were analyzed by descriptive statistics, independent sample t-test, one-way MANOVA , and canonical correlation.
The main findings of this study were as following¡G
1. Life experiences of college students in Taiwan could been classified eight kind of styles which including ¡uexploring experiences¡v, ¡uadventure experiences¡v , ¡uteam works¡v,¡uculture experiences¡v,¡ufashion life¡v ,¡umaking money¡v, ¡uinformation getting¡vand¡urisk seeking ¡v. The study present team works was the most students ever tried.
2. There were significant differences of life experiences and creative thinking in different gender, grade, college (Art College, Science College, Social Science College) and school type (University, The Normal University, Technical and Vocational College) students in Taiwan.
3. There were significant canonical correlation among the college students¡¦ background, creative personality and life experiences. The study finding revealed the junior and senior of The Normal University have more different kind experiences, than any others, especially in¡uadventure experiences¡v, ¡uteam works¡v, ¡uculture experiences¡v and ¡urisk seeking ¡v. They also had more creative personalities and didn¡¦t think they were interest narrow and commonplace.
4. There were significant canonical correlation among eight life experiences styles and creative thinking. The result present¡uexploring experiences¡v, ¡uteam works¡v, ¡uculture experiences¡v, ¡ufashion life¡vand ¡uinformation getting¡vhad positive effects on the verbal and figure creative thinking, especially on verbal creative thinking.
5. There were significant canonical correlation among the college students¡¦ background, creative personality and creative thinking. The finding revealed the junior or senior, art college and the normal university female students present better in creative thinking than any others. They also had more positive creative personalities for example, confident, resourceful and original.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0914106-160601 |
| Date | 14 September 2006 |
| Creators | Lu, Lin-yi |
| Contributors | none, none, I-Heng Chen |
| Publisher | NSYSU |
| Source Sets | NSYSU Electronic Thesis and Dissertation Archive |
| Language | Cholon |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | http://etd.lib.nsysu.edu.tw/ETD-db/ETD-search/view_etd?URN=etd-0914106-160601 |
| Rights | withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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