Relationships among creative thinking ability, creative personality and motivation

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationships among creative thinking ability, creative personality, and intrinsic/extrinsic motivation type. For the above purpose, the following research questions were considered in this study: is there any significant difference in the children's creative thinking ability and creative personality by the children's motivation type, two separate dimensions rather than one bipolar? In this study there were 127 young children subjects under age five from 10 kindergarten classes. Data gathered were analyzed for the verification of the hypothesis of this subject for using SPSS 18.0 program. The results of this study were as follows: First, there were significant positive relationships between the intrinsic motivation and the creative personality of the young children but there were no statistically significant relations between the intrinsic/extrinsic motivation and the creative thinking ability. Second, the intrinsic-high/extrinsic-high motivation group was higher than any other types of motivation groups in creative personality. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.