Relationship between Personality Types A and B and Creativity Level of Secondary School Students’ In Kwara State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study investigated the relationship between personality types and creativity level of secondary school adolescents' in Kwara State. Correlational research method was adopted. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select ten schools across the state. Four hundred students across the ten schools were sampled. Two instruments were used. Thus, Jugg-Myers Briggs Personality questionnaire and creativity and innovation scale adopted from Animasahun. The instruments were subjected to pilot testing and were found to have the coefficient of reliability of 0.76 and 0.68 respectively using the Pearson product moment correlation coefficient statistics at 0.05 level of significance. Findings of the study revealed that there was a significant relationship between personality types and creativity level of secondary school students in kwara state; it also revealed that there was no significant relationship between the variables on the basis of gender and school types. Recommendations were made by the researchers that attention should be given to students irrespective of their personality types by both parents and teachers in order to cater for them and provide necessary attention that can help them to explore and utilize their creative potentials, also teachers should use appropriate teaching methods in teaching in order to enhance students' creativity.