The Research Of The College Students' Extra-curricular Activities And The Development Of Creative Personality

This paper theoretically analyzes the influences that college students' extra-curricular activities have on the development of creative personality, and the mental mechanism related to it. Moreover, the writer designs questionnaire of college students' extra-curricular activities, chooses 450 students in one key university in Fujian for testing and analyzing, and lastly bring forward educational suggestions for college students' extra-curricular activities.The whole paper is divided into four chapters. Chapter One raises the problem, and states the basic idea, main content and means of the research. Chapter Two analyzes the inevitability and importance of the influences that college students' extra-curricular activities have on creative personality, and also expatiates on the mental mechanism related to it. Chapter Three discusses the influences that college students' extracurricular activities have on creative personality in the way of empirical research. Chapter Four combining the result of the research, brings forward the educational suggestions on the aspects of the protection of the extra-curricular activities, the structure of the extra-curricular activities, the encouragement and guidance of college students' creative motivation and the choice of the extra-curricular activities.The basic conclusions are as follow:1. Extra-curricular activities play significant role in the development of the college students' creative personality.2. Extra-curricular activities and creative personality relate to each other: the more activities one participates in, the more willingness one has and the more praise one gives to the activities, the higher one's creativity becomes.3. There is complicated interaction between the formation of personality and extra-curricular activities. That is to say, generally speaking, the more activities one participates in, the influences that it has on the formation of creative personality; but specifically speaking, different extra-curricular activities have different influences on the formation of creative personality.4. Judging from the forms of the activities, in various extra-curricular activities, all-pervading activity is the one that most students would like to participate in, while the competitive activity is the one that least students would choose. The students think that competitive activity and all-pervading activity influences more on the cultivation and exploitation of creativity than participant activity.5. Judging from the contents of the activities, voluntary activity is the one that most students participate in, while academic activity is the one that least students choose. Voluntary activity is the one that students are most willing to take part in, but the cultural activity is the one that students are least willing to choose. In the students' opinion, academic activity has the most outstanding influences on the cultivation and exploitation of creativity, and on the contrary, voluntary activity influences the least.