유아의 감성지능과 창의성의 관련성 연구 = A Study on Relationship between Young Children`s Emotional Intelligence and Creativity

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purposes of this study were : 1) to investigate the relationship between young children’s emotional intelligence and creativity. 2) to find out gender and age effect on the relationship between emotional intelligence and creativity. 3) to analyze the relationships among four factors of emotional intelligence and creativity. 4) to examine gender and age influence on the relationships of four factors of emotional intelligence with creativity. In this study 600 4-year-old children(312boys, 288girls) and 900 5-year-old children(466 boys, 434 girls) were selected from 15 different educational institutions located in Ulsan and Gwangju. Two instruments were used; Emotional Quotient Inventory for young children(EQI) were employed to test young children’s emotional intelligence. EQI was translated, and modified by Lee, Lee, and Kim(2001) based on Emotional Quotient Inventory(EQI) originally developed by Bar-On and Parker. PRIDE, a parents’ rating scale, developed by Rimm(1976) was used to find out young children’s creativity. The result from this study were as follows : First, a significant correlation was found between young children’s emotional intelligence and creativity. Second, young children’s age was found to be an important intervening variable to the relationship between emotional intelligence and creativity. Statistics showed that correlation between emotional intelligence and creativity among younger children group was higher than the older ones, but gender did not show any significant influence on the correlation between emotional intelligence and creativity. Third, all of the four factors of emotional intelligence were positively related with creativity. Finally, there were no gender and age influence on the relationships of creativity with four factors of emotional intelligence.