A Study of Convergent Thinking and Divergent Thinking among Secondary School Students in relation to Ethnicity, Locale, Types of Institutions and Sex

Abstract

 Joy Paul Guilford identified two types of thinking as convergent thinking and divergent thinking. Convergent thinking was named as intelligence and divergent thinking as creativity. The researchers in the present study have tried to find out a relationship between convergent and divergent thinking. They have further investigated bearing of variables like ethnicity, locale, types of institutions and sex on both these thinking types. The study has employed descriptive survey method and has taken 600 secondary school students of Jharkhand State (Ranchi district only) as sample by using stratified random sampling technique. Verbal group test of R.K. Tandon has been used to measure convergent thinking. To measure divergent thinking, Baquer Mehdi verbal test has been used. Mean, standard deviation, t and r statistics have been employed to analyse the data. Major objectives of the study are : (i) to identify convergent and divergent thinking of secondary school students, (ii) to ascertain a relationship between convergent and divergent thinking, (iii) to study the bearing of ethnicity, locale, types of institutions and sex on convergent thinking and divergent thinking.