Year: 2024 | Month: October | Volume: 11 | Issue: 10 | Pages: 669-677
DOI: https://doi.org/10.52403/ijrr.20241060
Differences in Creativity across Gender among Undergraduate Students
Dayamoyee Das1, Dr. Bijan Sarkar2
1Research Scholar, Department of Education, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, Nadia, West Bengal
2Professor, Department of Education, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, Nadia, West Bengal
Corresponding Author: Dayamoyee Das
ABSTRACT
Creative people are the wealth of society. Creativity not only improves one's performance but also plays an important role in the development of the entire society as well as the country. The purpose of this present study was to find out whether there was any difference in creativity due to gender differences. The population of this study was the Undergraduate students of the Presidency Division of West Bengal. A total of 244 students were taken as samples from the Arts, Commerce and Science streams of Barrackpore Rastraguru Surendranath College and Chakdaha College. The Purposive sampling technique was used to select the samples. The sample consisted of 109 Males and 135 Females. A self-constructed Creativity Test was administered to the students for data collection. Students' Verbal creativity was measured in terms of Fluency, Flexibility, and Originality. Students' Non-Verbal creativity was measured in terms of Fluency, Flexibility, Originality, and Elaboration. Mann–Whitney U test was applied for statistical analysis of data. The present study found that there were significant differences between Male and Female undergraduate students in terms of Fluency and Flexibility in both Verbal and Non-Verbal Creativity. No significant differences were found in both Verbal and Non-Verbal Originality and Non-Verbal Elaboration of Undergraduate students.
Keywords: Gender, Creativity, Verbal Creativity, Non-Verbal Creativity
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