Creativityand Health Control Locus in Teenagers as the Dimensions of Achievment in Learning Cover Image

Paauglių kūrybiškumas ir sveikatos kontrolės lokusas kaip mokymosi sėkmės veiksniai
Creativityand Health Control Locus in Teenagers as the Dimensions of Achievment in Learning

Author(s): Ala Petrulytė
Subject(s): Education
Published by: Vytauto Didžiojo Universitetas
Keywords: adolescent; creativity; health control locus; achievement in learning

Summary/Abstract: The mainpurpose of this research was to analyse the peculiarities of creativity, Health control locus and achievement in learning of adolescent (219 pupils of 9-10 grades general education and art oriented specialization). Methods: • K. Wallston (1978) multidimensional scale health locus of control (mhlc). Mhlc provides measures of three dimensions of health locus of control: Internality; Chance and Powerful others. • Personality creativity questionnaire by V. Petrulis (1988,1991) The main results of research are: 1. Parameters reflecting senior pupil' creativity are higher with statistical significance in classes specializing in arts rather than those of pupils learning in general education. 2. There was found statistically significant negative low correlation between the indexes of senior pupils' creativity "originality" and the indicator of health control locus chance (chc) (r = -0.202, p = 0.045); "intuition" and "internality" (Hlc) (r = -0.282, p = 0.005). 3. There was the negative correlation between the achievements in learning and the indicator of health control locus chance (chc) of senior pupils in genera education.

  • Issue Year: 2008
  • Issue No: 90
  • Page Range: 115-120
  • Page Count: 6
  • Language: Lithuanian