Author(s)

Cheng-Ping Chang¹, Chun-Chieh Tseng², Hsin-Hao Chen³, Tsai-Chih Hsieh^1,4

¹Department of Education, National University of Tainan.
²Department of Sport Health and Leisure, Chung Hwa University of Medical Technology.
³Graduate Institute of Education Leadership and Evaluation, Southern Taiwan University of Science and Technology.
⁴Department of Hotel Management, Tainan University of Technology.

This study recruited 483 new immigrant children in the fifth and sixth grades of elementary schools in Tainan to determine the correlation between various aspects of their optimism and creativity and the moderating effect of playfulness. Statistical methods involving items, reliability, analysis, descriptive statistics, two-way analysis of variance, and the moderating effect test were applied to questionnaire data. Significant positive relationships between optimism, playfulness, and creativity were identified with the schoolchildren, and playfulness moderated the relationship between their optimism and creativity.

New Immigrant Schoolchildren, Optimism, Creativity, Playfulness

Chang, C. , Tseng, C. , Chen, H. and Hsieh, T. (2020) Moderating Effect of Playfulness on the Correlation between Optimism and Creativity of New Immigrant Schoolchildren in Taiwan. Creative Education, 11, 1357-1374. doi: 10.4236/ce.2020.118100.