Global Journal of Guidance and Counseling in Schools: Current Perspectives

Yazarlar: Maryam Ghorbani, Hamid Kazemi, Mansoreh Shafaghi, Hajar Massah

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Anahtar Kelimeler:Self efficacy,Cognitive creativity,Emotional creativity

Özet: One of the components involved in educational and learning processes is self efficacy or sense of personal competency and adequacy about person’s abilities that has influenced on how he/she deals with life problems and tasks. Self efficacy is caused by 4 sources: individual success, alternative experience, verbal persuasion and emotional states when judging his/her ability. Fourth component is discussed in cognitive/emotional dimension. In present study this question follows that whether as it is predicted, self efficacy associate with cognitive creativity components is associated with emotional components too? So, the aim of present research is to determine the relationship between self efficacy and cognitive/emotional creativity in group of middle schools and high schools girls in Isfahan. To investigate these relationship, 60 girl students of middle schools and high schools in Isfahan (aged 14-17) has been selected randomly. Abedi creativity test (1993), Averill emotional creativity questionnaire (1999), and Sherer et al. self efficacy Inventory (1982) were performed on sample. results shows that self efficacy has a positive and significant relation with the total score of cognitive creativity (R=0.62, P<0.01). Results of stepwise regression indicated that self efficacy predicted by fluency (R=0.60, P<0.001) and honesty (R=0.30, P<0.01). In this paper, Research findings explain that efficacy sources are emotional and cognitive states, especially when person evaluate him/her self and every one that has higher level of self efficacy can approve better cognitive/emotional creativity in counter to problem solving situations and learning process.

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