The Ability to be Creative and its Relationship to Social Competence and Cognitive Development among Kindergarten Children in Al-Dulayl District

Abstract

The study aimed to reveal the relationship between creativity and both social competence and cognitive growth in light of the variables of supervisory authority and gender, among kindergarten children. The study sample consisted of (135) children, of whom (62) males and (73) females, enrolled in government kindergartens. And in particular, during the second semester of the academic year 2021-2020, using the descriptive correlative methodology, and to achieve the objectives of the study, the TCT-DP creative thinking test, the social competence scale, and the cognitive growth assessment tool were applied, after checking the indications of its validity and stability, and the results indicated that the level of ability on creativity among kindergarten children, it came at the weak level, and the level of social competence at the medium level, and the results showed a statistically significant correlation between creativity and both social competence and cognitive growth, and there was no significant difference in the value of the correlation attributed to the variables of gender and the authority in the kindergarten.