INTERACTION EFFECT OF ADJUSTMENT AND NEED ACHIEVEMENT UPON CREATIVITY
Shruti Mishra
Shraddha Shukla
INTRODUCTION
Education
is the process where by potential skills or potential ways of being are made
actual through experience as distinguished from innate development patterns. Change
is one of the constant factors in human experience. There is a reason to
believe that originality is almost habitual with individuals which produces a
really singular idea, what this implies is that a highly organised
mode of responding to experience is a precondition for constant creativity. The
process of human adjustment also depends on a degree of acceptance of things
that can neither be ignored (adopted to) nor can be
changed. Life in general, requires the acknowledgement of certain limitations and
the renunciation of certain specific goals. This means that acceptance of the
inevitable factor is a part of a satisfactory stage over all adjustment
process. A motive is conceived as a disposition, a strive
for a certain kind of satisfaction as a capacity for satisfaction in the
attainment of a certain classes of incentives which produce essentially the
same kind of experience of satisfaction. It is small wonder that many people
come to view the world as a “forest primeval” subject only to the law of the
“survival of the fittest”. Such attitudes hinder the development of healthy ego
structures in winners and loser alike. Therefore, one has to use maximum creative power and mental potential
if he/she wants to win the race.
Creative individuals remain happy in creating something new and original. A
creative person respects that creative spark of other individuals. This is one
of the reasons why education for creativity is so important. Creativity is
energy being put to work in a constructive fashion.
OBJECTIVE
To analyse the interaction
effect of adjustment and need achievement upon creativity.
HYPOTHESIS
There
is a significant interaction effect of adjustment and need-achievement upon
creativity.
PROCEDURE
Sample
The
study does not
aim at clinical or diagnostic analysis of behaviour. Students of higher
secondary classes such as 10th or 12th grade were not
taken in consideration. The population of present study constituted of college
going students of district Jalaun U.P..
Sample was selected from the college going students of the age group of 18-21
years. Total 400 units of the students were selected in which 200 hundreds were
male and 200 hundreds were female students. Sample of the present study was
selected by combination of non-probability and probability techniques through
quota sample (stratified cluster sampling) and systematic random techniques.
The
present study was concerned with the study of impact of adjustment on
creativity. An ex-post facto design was considered suitable for the study.
Actually the present study was of exploratory nature in which the independent
variable has occurred and the research starts with the observation of dependent
variable. Independent variables were : adjustment and
need-achievement and dependent variables were: creativity.
Tools
The
tools of the study were: Standardized tests were of creativity, adjustment and
need-achievement and Creativity test by Dr. N.S. Chauchan
and Dr. Govind Tiwari; Taresh Bhatias’s Adjustment
inventory; and Deo-Mohan Projective Test or
Achievement Motivation.
The
principal and teachers of those colleges were contacted personally and
importance of study and utility of the study was explained to them. In the
beginning, the investigator gave an orientation lecture to the students in the
group. Creativity test, adjustment and need-achievement scale were administered
to collect the data.
Statistical Analysis
The
statistical operation followed for the present investigation involved
descriptive and inferential technique. Computation of mean, S.D., ‘t’ test and ANOVA (2x2 factorial design) found out
significant mean difference among the sub-groups. Quartiles were computed for
getting 25% of highest and lowest 25% cases on adjustment, need-achievement and
creativity. For the purpose of interpretation factorial technique 2x2 was
adopted. This technique illustrate interaction between two variables i.e.
adjustment and need-achievement upon creativity.In
order to know whether adjustment and need-achievement had any impact upon
creativity, 2x2 factorial design was used. The sample was divided into two adjustment categories
i.e. high and low, and same two need-achievement categories. In this way four
groups were obtained.
FINDINGS
It
was found that both high pupils (adjustment and need-achievement) had high
level of creativity. It can be stated that high pupils have high level of
creativity. To find out the interaction effect of need-achievement and
adjustment on total creative power, 2x2 factorial design was used and analysis of variance was calculated.
It was found that need-achievement affected creativity as a whole has effect on
need-achievement. Adjustment has also effect upon creativity. Total
need-achievement and adjustment had no interaction effect upon creativity.
CONCLUSION
The
period of adolescence is the most period of human life. Several studies in this
area have concentrated their attention on the relation between adjustment and
achievement and found positive relationship between adjustment achievements.
Therefore the hypothesis “There is a significant interaction effect of
adjustment and need-achievement upon creativity” was partially accepted.
Separately adjustment and need-achievement have effect upon creativity.