Study of the Relationship between Parenting Attitude of Youth Fostering and Creativity among Students of Universities

Bahareh Azizi Nejad^1*, Hossein Jenaabadi², Nazila Ghafarshuja³, Hagigat Heydaribisafar⁴

¹Department of Human Science, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran.
²Department of Education, University of Sistan and Baluchestan, Zahedan, Iran.
³Islamic Azad University, Saveh Branch, Saveh, Iran.
⁴Islamic Azad University, Urmia Branch, Urmia, Iran.

DOI: 10.4236/jbbs.2015.54015                

Abstract

Nowadays, creativity is the main need for continuing the life in the various aspects of society, especially education. Parenting attitude of youth fostering as an important factor can be effect on creativity, because youth are dependent to parents and they are as power recourse for youth. Youth are in interaction with parents and parents can be ready appropriate filed in home and family to efflorescence their youth’s creativity. The present study undertakes to provide a descriptive and correlative analysis on the relationship between youth fostering and student creativity. Parenting attitudes (including domination, high dependency, and negligence) and creativity (including fluency, originality, flexibility and elaboration) are taken as independent and dependent variables, respectively. To test the hypotheses, information collected from three questionnaires was analyzed: 1) multiple choice paper and pencil test for measuring Torrance creativity (1973), 2) parent attitude survey (PAS) of Drews and Teahen (1957), and 3) evaluation of students’ creativity by masters. Statistical population of the study includes all students of Urmia Medical Sciences University (209 males and 218 females) and their parents. Data analysis was performed by SPSS software using descriptive and inferential statistical methods. Results indicate no significant relationship between student creativity and parents attitude on youth fostering (r = 0.20) and parents put more emphasis on educational success than creativity. Also, female students had better performance than males in terms of creativity.

Keywords

Youth-Fostering Styles, Parents’ Youth-Fostering Attitude, Creativity, Dimensions of Creativity

Conflicts of Interest

The authors declare no conflicts of interest.

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