The relationship between parenting styles, shyness and creativity in the gifted

Not every gifted is necessarily creative, but fully utilizing the intelligence is impossible without creativity. Therefore the study on factors of creativity among the gifted is necessary.The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between parenting styles and shyness with creativity among the gifted.In this study, we have selected 237 female students from Tehran's “Sampad” high schools using cluster random sampling method and applying “Bumrind parenting styles scale”, “Stanford Shyness Test” and “Abedi Creativity Scale” as the main tools for the investigation.Thereafter, data were analyzed by chi-square and phi coefficient, beside the descriptive statistics methods. Results revealed that in the parenting style group of maternal logical discipline, the least frequency of low shyness is for the lowest and low levels of creativity and the highest frequency is for the high and very high levels of creativity. The comparison between levels of creativity and levels of shyness according to the logical parenting style showed a correlation of 0.51 with a significance level of less than 0.0001 and a significant difference between groups via chi square test. In other words, most of the individuals who underwent logical discipline parenting style and had low levels of shyness, hold a higher than medium levels of creativity.