Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF INTERDISCIPLINARY STUDIES CONFERENCE, Texas, Amerika Birleşik Devletleri, 16 - 19 Nisan 2015, ss.402-420
Creativity has a quite important place in an individual’s life. Creative people always will take
the initiative in new ideas, thoughts and inventions. This has tremendous importance in the
development and progress of the society lived in. That is because; cultural values and
accumulations of the society leave an important influence on the creativity of the individual.
Since preschool period progresses very fast in developmental terms, it may be stated that culture
and environmental conditions have more influence on the creativity of the child. While
expressing him/herself; he child in the preschool period uses different ways. We can see the
creativity of the child in her/his games, peer relations and drawings. The family, house
environment and district the child lives in, economic conditions owned, her/his school and
societal structure affect her/his creativity. The family to have different cultural values, a second
language to be spoken at home and the child to learn a second language in critical ages affect
the child. In this study, whether some variables and environmental differences have influence
on the creativity of children living in different cities of Turkey in preschool period was
analyzed. In the study, “Torrance Test of Creative Thinking”, which was developed by Torrance
(1962), was used. Reliability and validity studies of the test were conducted. As a result of the
analyses, the scale that was used was seen to be reliable and valid