Volume : III, Issue : V, May - 2013

The Relationship between Socio–Economic Status and Scientific Creativity of Scheduled Caste Students

Dr. Mrs. Vandana Punia, Ram Niwas

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Creativity is journey of human being’s dissatisfaction to satisfaction. When we feel something lack, then we want to reform the thing or situation. Why we think so? What works behind this? What is the origin of creative work? I think aesthetic sense is a main cause of Creativity. Every creative work is a reflection of human mind and aesthetic sense. Aesthetic sense is related with beauty. Beauty of world is depends upon beauty of mind because every beautiful creation is product of mind, and mind does so when it feel dissatisfaction and hunger to find something new, highly creative people can do this type of task. Artists, musician, scientists do inventions due to their aesthetic sense. In supporting my view I quote "Every day is an opportunity to be creative – the canvas is your mind, the ushes and colors are your thoughts and feelings, the panorama is your story, the complete picture is a work of art called…" (Inner space) The objectives of study were: (1) to find out the relationship between scientific creativity and the various socio–economic factors of scheduled caste students. (2)To find out the relationship between creative potential of scheduled caste students and various demographic variables. (3) To evaluate the differences in scientific creativity on the basis of gender, residential areas, type of family, caste category, parents occupation, parents education, family income and academic stream of post graduate students of schedvuled caste . The hypotheses of study were: There is no significant difference in the creative potential of scheduled caste students based upon gender, residential areas, type of family, caste category, parent’s occupation, parent’s education, family income and academic stream. The Survey Method was used. 300 post graduate scheduled caste students were consisted as a sample. The sample was selected randomly Method. Scientific Creativity Test by Dr. K S Mrshra (1986) and personal inventory (self designed with the help of supervisor) were used to collect the data. The data were analyzed using Mean, SD, t–test and F – test. Scientific creativity is assessed on the basis of fluency, flexibility and originality. The findings of study were: (1) there is highly significant difference in scientific creativity (fluency, flexibility and originality) of male and female, rural and Urban, SC1 and SC2. There positive relationship is found among parent’s occupation, parent’s education, family income, academic stream and scientific Creativity. Hence there is strong relationship is found between scientific creativity and socio–economic factors.    

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Dr. (Mrs.) Vandana Punia, Ram Niwas The Relationship between Socio-Economic Status and Scientific Creativity of Scheduled Caste Students Indian Journal of Applied Research, Vol.III, Issue.V May 2013

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