Effectiveness of a Creative Problemsolving Program on the Enhancement of Creativity and Social Adaptation among Gifted and Talented Adolescent Students

The purpose of this study was to investigate the effectiveness of a creative problemsolving program training on the enhancement of creativity and social adjustment in gifted and talented boy adolescents.

This research was carried out in a quasi-experimental and pre- & post-test design with control group. The population of the study was 452 high school boy students of exeptional talents in Ardabil City. Finaly 46 students were selected. The research tools were Raven's Matrices (1938), Tehran-Stanford-Binet's Intelligence Test (Afroz and Kamkari, 2011), Torrance Test of Creative Thinking (TTCT) (1998), and Bell Social Adjustment (1962) Inventoris. The experimental group participated in a problem solving training program during 13 sessions (75 minutes per session). In order to control the effect of pre-tests, data were analyzed using multivariate analysis of covariance (MANCOVA).

The results showed that the mean scores of in the subscales of fluency, flexibility, originality, elaboration, general social adjustment, health adjustment and emotional adjustment between the experimental and evidence groups were meaningly different.

According to the results, applying creative problem solving training program for improvement of creativity and social adjustment for gifted and talented male adolescents was effective. Based on the results of this study, using a creative problem solving training program to improve creativity and social adjustment for gifted students is recommended.