The main purpose of this study was to explore the relationships between age, temperament, emotional regulation, creative drama and preschoolers¡¦ creativity. The participants included 116 preschool children sampling from kindergartens in Taipei, Kaohsiung, and Hsinchu City. The employed instruments were The Childhood Temperament Inventory, The Checklist of Creative Drama Instruction, The Checklist of Emotional Regulation Strategy, and The Test of Creativity. The data were collected via observation, interviews, and questionnaires; and the applied analysis methods were Descriptives, One-way Multivariate Analysis of Variance, One-way Univariate Analysis of Variance, Canonical Correlation, and Discriminant Analysis.
The main findings in this study were as follows¡G
1.While significant gender differences on temperament were found, no significant differences were found on the preschoolers¡¦ performances in emotional regulation and creativity.
2.The children in the big class outperformed those in the middle class on creativity.
3.Temperament had significant differences on the preschools¡¦ creativity; more specifically, those with positive temperament outperformed those with negative temperament on the overall creativity performance, and the temperament of ¡§persistence¡¨ had the highest correlation with the preschoolers¡¦ performances on ¡§novelty¡¨ and ¡§usefulness¡¨.
4.Emotional regulation had positive influences on the preschools¡¦ creativity; more specifically, the ¡§social strategy¡¨ of emotional regulation had the highest correlation with the preschoolers¡¦ performances on ¡§novelty¡¨ and ¡§usefulness¡¨. .
5.Creativity drama instruction had significant differences on the preschools¡¦ creativity performance as well as on ¡§novelty¡¨ and ¡§usefulness¡¨.
6.Age, temperament, emotional regulation, and creative drama could jointly predict the preschools¡¦ ability group of creativity.
Finally, the researcher proposed some suggestions for educational instruction and future studies.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:NSYSU/oai:NSYSU:etd-0720104-153621 |
| Date | 20 July 2004 |
| Creators | Li, Jia-Ying |
| Contributors | none, none, none |
| 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-0720104-153621 |
| Rights | campus_withheld, Copyright information available at source archive |
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