ORDINAL POSITION AND DEVELOPMENT OF VERBAL & NON-VERBAL CREATIVITY IN CHILDREN

Abstract

Background: Every parent after child birth think upon creativity and during nurturance and care they make their own expectation on the basis of different activity. When child have another siblings parents comparebetween them. Many of the time they discuss their creative behavior with neighbor, teacher and other family member and give proper remark but after a long duration past when child grew-up and form an adolescent that time actual scenario represent the creativity. Present study makes an attempt toassess impact of birth order on creativity. Aims: To examine the influence of ordinal position and development of verbal and nonverbal creative abilities in children. Methods: Schools were randomly selected from central and peripheral area of Ara district in Bihar. 400 subject were selected from high school in the age group of 10 years to 13 years, Half of the respondents were urban and half of rural inhabitation. Subjects were equally divided on the basis of birth order and for assessment of creative thinking Baquer Mehdi's (1973) test was applied. Data was analyzed through Mean, SD, SE and't'. Result: First born children significantly higher score in overall creative domain than their later born. Conclusion: Birth order and creativity always have the matter of research, many study attempted to justify the correlation of different birth order and creativity, but they have own strength and weakness.