اثربخشی آموزش حل مسئله خلاقانه بر رضایت از زندگی و سازگاری اجتماعی دانش آموزان پسر تیزهوش

Improving creative problem solving skills for gifted students is bound to facilitate their confrontation with everyday conflict situations. Due to the necessity of these skills in the lives of gifted students, a creative problem solving training program was developed and its effectiveness on the enhancement of social adaptation and life satisfaction among gifted and talented adolescents was evaluated. The design of the study was quasi-experimental with pretest-posttest and control group. Among 9 different 7th grade classes in an all-son school in Ardebill city, two were randomly selected and assigned as experimental and control groups. Students in these two classes were screened by the Raven Progressive Matrix of Intelligence (1938) and the Tehran Stanford-Binet Test of Intelligence (Afrooz & Kamkary, 2003). The experimental group participated in the creative problem solving program and the control group did not receive any treatment. The teacher form of the Enhancement of Social Adaptation Rating Scale (Bell Adjustment Inventory (BAI), the Life Satisfaction Rating Scale Huebner (S), and the Multidimensional Students’ Life Satisfaction Scale (MSLSS) were used to measure students’ social adaptation and life satisfaction levels. The obtained data were analyzed by multivariate analysis of the covariance (MANCOVA). Results showed significant differences (p<.05) between the experimental and control groups in general satisfaction of life, satisfaction of friends, environmental satisfaction, self-satisfaction, social adjustment, and emotional adjustment. According to the results, applying creative problem solving program for improvement social adjustment and life satisfaction for gifted and talented male adolescents was effective. Discussion as well as suggestion for future research are presented in the original paper.