أنواع الاستثارات الفائقة و علاقتها بالإبداع العاطفي لدى طلبة الصفين السابع و العاشر

Abstract EN

The study aimed at identifying the relationship between the kinds of overexcitability and emotional creativity among the upper elementary stage students in Amman, and the differences between them considering the gender and grade.

The sample consisted of (264) students in 7th and 10th grades in Amman.

Two scales have been applied in this study: (Falk & et al.

scale for overexcitabilities, and Averill scale for emotional creativity).

The results indicated that the level of overexcitabilities were medium, while the level of the total emotional creativity was high.

and the results indicated the existence of significant positive relationships between the kinds of overexcitabilities (Intellectual, sensory, imagination, and Emotional) with emotional creativity, so the multiple regression analysis indicated that these kinds were predict the emotional creativity with a variance ratio of (24%).

The results showed that there were significant differences in some of the overexcitabilities kinds (Intellectual, imagination, and emotional) due to the gender for female, but in psychomotor overexcitability for male, whereas there were no significant differences in the overexcitabilities due to grade or it’s interaction with gender, except for psychomotor overexcitability.

The study also found significant differences in the emotional creativity due to the gender for females, and to grade for 10th grade.

Finally, the study recommended training of students in emotional creativity before the onset of adolescence.