The purpose of this study was to investigate the significant differences and relations of elementary schools¡¦ students¡¦ positive thinking, personality traits, and creativity.
Five hundred and twenty-nine elementary schools¡¦ students were stratified random sampling from Kaohsiung City. All participants completed the instruments of The Elementary School Student Positive Thinking Scale (ESPTS), The Big Five Inventory and Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT). A confirmatory factor analysis, t-tests, analysis of variance (ANOVA), and Pearson product-moment correlation were conducted to assess the similarities and differences among different background variables. The main findings were as follows:
1. Girls¡¦ positive thinking means was significantly higher than the boys.
2. The first born children¡¦s positive thinking mean score was significantly higher than the other born orders children.
3. Students who living with parents presented significantly higher positive thinking means than these students who living with grandparents or elder.
4. Children came from father with democratic practice presented significantly higher positive thinking scores than these children with authoritarian father practices.
5. Girls¡¦ mean score on Agreeableness and Openness was significantly higher than the boys.
6. The single child¡¦ mean on Openness presented significantly higher than the first-born children and later-born children
7. Fourth graders¡¦ mean on creativity-fluency and creativity-originality was significantly higher than the 6th graders.
9. The single child¡¦s creativity mean was significantly higher than the other born order children.
10. Students¡¦ life-satisfaction means score was significant correlation with Creativity score.
11. Students¡¦ positive thinking was significant correlation with their Big-five personality score.
12. Students¡¦ Extraversion and Openness means were significant correlation with their
Creativity.
Implications of these findings for classroom instructions and future related researches are discussed.
Key Words: elementary school student; positive thinking; personality traits;
creativity.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0817112-105417 |
| Date | 17 August 2012 |
| Creators | Lin, Chia-Jung |
| Contributors | Der-long Fang, Zuway-R Hong, Huann-shyang Lin |
| 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-0817112-105417 |
| Rights | user_define, Copyright information available at source archive |
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