A study on relationship between creativity and idealistic realistic attitude: A case study of high school teachers

This paper presents a study to investigate the relationship between creativity and idealistic realistic attitude among high school teachers in city of Gorgan, Iran over the years 2010-2011. The study designs a questionnaire in Likert scale and distributes it among 262 randomly selected teachers. Cronbach alphas have been calculated as 0.88 and 0.876 for creativity and idealistic, respectively. The results of the survey indicate that there was a significant correlation between teachersʹ creativity and their realistic and idealistic approach. The study also finds out that teachersʹ with realistic & idealistic approach are more creative than those who are not. In our survey, idealist teachers are more creative than realist teachers are and there is a significant relationship between teachers’ gender and their realistic and idealistic approach.