A comparative study of bilinguals and monolinguals on verbal and figural creativity

Pages: 90-93
Preeti Gulati (Department of Psychology, S.R. Government College for Women, Amritsar, Punjab)

The present study was conducted to compare the creative abilities of monolinguals and bilinguals. To find significant differences two groups were clubbed i.e. Monolinguals (ML: n=200, 100 Boys & 100 Girls) and Bilinguals (BL: n=200, 100 Boys & 100 Girls) and univariate t-test was applied. In the present study “Eta Squared” has been computed to find out the relative magnitude of difference between the groups. Our results clearly indicate that bilingual students performed better on all these components (Fluency, Flexibility, Originality, & Elaboration) of verbal and figural creativity as compared to monolinguals.