This study aims to analyze the impact of Physical Activity Improvement Model(hereafter called PAIM) over infant's playfulness and creativity which are the motive force of infant's potentials. With a hypothesis based on former researches, this study ha...
This study aims to analyze the impact of Physical Activity Improvement Model(hereafter called PAIM) over infant's playfulness and creativity which are the motive force of infant's potentials. With a hypothesis based on former researches, this study has conducted three analyses. Firstly, infant's playfulness was analyzed by viewer's assesment scales with a focus on the different impacts of PAIM according to the target group, periods of time, and gender. Secondly, infant's creativity was verified by a creativity test, which also analyzed the different impacts of PAIM according to the target group, periods of time, and gender. Thirdly, the relationship between playfulness and creativity has been compared and analyzed with regard to PAIM.
The hypothesis coupled with analyses led to the following conclusions. Firstly, PAIM resulted in improving physical, social and cognitive voluntariness that are subordinate factors of playfulness. These factors show a tendency to increase as periods of time increase. It is also found that the comparison group tends to have a higher interaction effect between groups and periods of time than the control group. This could be translated that PAIM and ordinary programs of kindergartens can improve factors of physical voluntariness. No difference has been found among groups concerning the expression of joyfulness and a sense of humor, while education effect was found over periods of time. Indeed, this signals at the fact that PAIM as well as ordinary programs of kindergartens can improve the two factors in which interaction effect between groups and periods of time also takes place. This means that PAIM shows much more substantial education effects.
Secondly, PAIM also led to the increasing of levels of fluency, originality, abstractness, detailedness and openness. Varying periods of time may affect each factor. Particularly in abstractness, detailedness and openness, interaction effect between groups and periods of time was found. This interaction effect shows that PAIM can be more conducive than ordinary programs of kindergartens to increasing male infant's levels of abstractness, detailedness and openness. Male infants received a higher score in openness, but male infants in the control group received a lower score. This shows that ordinary programs of kindergartens can be negative to the male infant's openness and detailedness.
Thirdly, as far as the relationship between playfulness and creativity is concerned, fluency, a subordinate factor of creativity, is proportional to physical voluntariness that is a subordinate factor of playfulness. While openness has a proportional relationship with physical and cognitive volunariness, and a sense of humor, it is partially proportional to creativity and playfulness. Regression Analysis revealed that openness can have an impact on cognitive voluntariness, and abstractness can also have an impact on the expression of joyfulness.