ADHD 성향아동과 일반아동의 창의적 특성 비교 연구 : 초등학교 고학년을 중심으로 = A comparative study on the creativity of students with and without ADHD tendency

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The purpose of this study is to comparre study on the creativity of student with and without ADHD tendency. There was a try to prove what is different through out the creativity thinking test.

The steps of the study appears to be the followings.

The target students were the 5th and 6th graders in an elementary and the tests were the creativity thinking test, the creativity product test, and the creativity personality scale. After the tests, there was a request on ADHD Cornners Rating Scale to the teacher and the students who got over 17 points were rated to be the ADHD. The numbers of the ADHD students were 44 and because of the missing values student number changed to 40. The students with below 17 points turned out to be 45 through the Random Sampling. The result of the students selected were compared with independent sample t test and the Qualitative Analysis were used based on the unique response of the students with the ADHD tendency.

The test results are the followings.

In tests of creativity thinking, there were meaningful differences in total score of creativity thinking test and originality. Also, ADHD students and general students showed a significant difference in all areas of fluency, flexibility, and originality. In the last creative personality test, ADHD students showed better results in adventure zone and the general students showed higher scores in patience/obsession field. Following analysis of response of originality bonus point at third activity of TTCT, the children with ADHD tendency gain the more bonus point of originality than children without ADHD tendency and children with ADHD tendency have the more strong point about movement. Also there is not difference between children with and without ADHD tendency at fantasy field. But children with ADHD tendency have the more strng point about mystery, imagination than children without ADND tendency.

Following the results of the creativity thinking test and the creativity product test, children with ADHD tendency have the point of view to think the anything by other means and produce more ideas than the children without ADHD tendency. But, there is not different at Creative personality scale.
Throughtout the results of study, it is not that teachers and parents consider the behavior of student with ADHD as the problem, able, object of proofreading, but they serve as a momentum to pay attention of creativity, strong point hiden. In addition, when offering a valid education which enhance the strong point of student with ADHD, they occur the change of children's behavior which wa expect. Futher it contributes to develop the self-concept and serve as a momentum to children.