The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship of parent's verbal control types and young children's creativity. In order to achieve this purpose, parent's verbal control types and young children's creativity were measured and differences ...
The purpose of this study was to identify the relationship of parent's verbal control types and young children's creativity. In order to achieve this purpose, parent's verbal control types and young children's creativity were measured and differences in young children's creativity (language and drawing domain of creative ability and creative personality) according to parent's verbal control types (order orientation, position orientation, personality orientation) were identified.
The subjects of this study were 100 five-year-old young children in early childhood educational institutions located in Seoul and Gyeonggi-do areas. The test tool used for this study was 'Parent's verbal control type questionnaire for parents by Lee Kyung-ah (2007). The test was divided the verbal control type into order-oriented control, position-oriented control, personality-oriented control and included 25 items from commonly occurred problem situations and 'Integrated creativity test for children' by Lee Kyung-hwa (2011). As for the study method, first the verbal control type questionnaire was distributed to families for the test of parent's verbal control types to collect in 1 or 2 weeks and the integrated creativity test was directly performed by home teachers of the early childhood educational institutions to children corresponding to sincerely prepared 100 questionnaires among the collected responses.
SPSS WIN 18.0 Program was used for data analysis to perform frequency analysis, reliability analysis using Cronbach's α coefficient, independent samples t-test, One-Way ANOVA and Scheffe test, Chi-square test of cross tabulation and correlation analysis were performed for post test.