Analysis on the Effects of the Jeong-jwa Activity Based on Toegye Yi Hwang’s Idea of Gyeong on Creative Personality of High School Students

Abstract

This study conducted an experiment on students attending an academic high school by setting a Jeong-jwa activity, which is one of the practices of Toegye Yi Hwang's idea of Gyeong, as part of regular classes, and examined the changes in creative personality. Participants were 155 students and divided into two groups (experimental group: 2 classes, 59 students, 38.1%; control group: 3 classes, 96 students, 61.9%). Creative personality test developed by the Korean Educational Development Institute (KEDI) in 2011, which is consisted of 6 sub-factors (curiosity, task commitment, aesthetics, risk taking, open-mindedness, and independence of judgment) with a total of 27 items rated on a 4-point Likert scale, was utilized for measuring the level of creative personality of students. The pretest and posttest were analyzed with One-way ANCOVA, excepts for 'open-mindedness' and 'independence of judgment' among sub-factors because of lower reliability. The results showed that the main effect on creative personality, and task commitment, aesthetics, and risk taking among the sub-factors of creative personality were statistically significant differences between the two groups. However, the main effect on curiosity was no statistically significant difference between the two groups.