Assessment of Creative Life Skills among Adolescents

By : Artika Saini, Prashant Srivastava

Page No: 209-217

Abstract
The present study entitled was undertaken to assess the creative skills of and to compare these skills of both male and female adolescents. The data were collected randomly from two blocks of Kangra District, Himachal Pradesh. A total of 120 adolescents( 60 male and 60 female) in the age group of 11-18 years were selected from the three schools of each block. Standardized scales were used to collect data namely Verbal Test of Creative Thinking and Non-verbal Test of Creative Thinking. The data were analyzed statistically using t-test. The results of the study revealed that there were significant differences in elaboration (verbal) and originality (non verbal) and non-significant difference in elaboration (non-verbal) and originality (verbal) of non verbal test of creative thinking and in case of verbal test of creative thinking significant difference was observed in flexibility and originality and nonsignificant difference was found in fluency between the male and female respondents.

Authors :
Artika Saini : Special Educator – SSD, Patel Nagar, New Delhi.
Prashant Srivastava : Psychiatric Social Worker – Dept. of Psychiatry, Kalpana Chawla Government Medical College and Hospital, Karnal, Haryana and Ph.D Scholar, Dept. of Social Work, Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi.