Abstract

This study aims to develop a creativity improvement program with imagery thinking and to verify its effects. Also, the effectiveness of this program were analysed in terms of sex and academic achievement. The subjects are 156 students of H university in Choongnam province. The subjects were divided into two groups. One group, as a experimental group(n=78), was exposed to creativity improvement program for 8 weeks and the second served as a control group (n=78). The results are as follows. The experimental group gained significantly high scores in the post-test for the all domains of creativity(i.e., originality, fluency, flexibility) while the control group did not in the none of them. This program appeared to be more effective for the high academic achievement group. There is no significant difference in the effect size between male and female group. Finally, most of the subjects in the experimental group utilized mental imagery during the execution of this program.