Compiling of innovative psychological quality measurement scale for senior middle school students

Aim: To compile an innovative psychological quality measurement scale for senior middle school students. Methods: 1 A questionnaire of innovative psychological quality was made to test 2 600 senior middle school students of 10 senior middle schools in Wuxi. According to the theory of compiling scale, an innovative psychological quality scale for high school students, which consisted of 2 partial scales (innovative thinking test including 57 items and innovative personality test including 120 items) and 11 content scales (divergent thinking, lateral thinking and critical thinking with 11 items in each; difference-finding thinking and reversible thinking with 12 items in each; curiosity & interest, independence & originality, self-consciousness & decisiveness, self-control & perseverance, self-confidence & self-respect, doubt & seek-truth with 20 in each) and their primary norm had been compiled. The higher the score, the stronger the individual and thinking ability was. 2 Measurement data difference was compared with t test. Correlation analysis was performed in innovative psychological qualify and learning score. Results: A total of 2 504 questionnaires were obtained. 1 The new compiled innovative psychological quality measurement scale had high reliability (retest reliability: 0.638-0.863, P < 0.01; split-half reliability: 0.609-0.932, P < 0.01; α coefficient:0.753-0.905, P < 0.01) and good construct validity. The correlation coefficient of the innovative psychological quality scale for high school students, which consisted of 2 partial scales and 11 content scales was 0.601-0.82; The correlation coefficient of innovative thinking and innovative personality was 0.263; The correlation coefficient of 5 content scales of innovative thinking was 0.316-0.539; The correlation coefficient of 6 content scales of innovative personality was 0.352-0.581(P < 0.01). 2 There was no significant difference in innovative psychological quality scale for high school students of different sexes and grades (P > 0.05). Score of innovative thinking scale in female senior middle students and students in grade two was markedly higher than that in the male senior middle students and students in grade one (t=7.081, 2.779, P < 0.01). Score of innovative personality was lower remarkably than that in the in the male senior middle students and students in grade one (t=6.820,6.820, P < 0.0 1). 3 There was a significantly negative correlation between the innovative psychological quality and the school achievement (r=-0.075, P < 0.01). Conclusion: 1 Innovative thinking and innovative personality are the two important parts of the innovative psychological quality. The innovative thinking mainly expresses divergent thinking, lateral thinking, critical thinking, difference-finding thinking and reversible thinking, and the innovative personality is mainly characterized by curiosity & interest, self-consciousness & decisiveness, independent & originality, self-control & willpower, self-confident & self-respect and doubt & seek-truth, etc. They are the indexes to evaluate the innovative psychological quality. The innovative psychological quality measurement scale for senior middle school students has high reliability and validity. 2 There is no significant difference in the whole development of innovative psychological quality in different population, but there is significant difference in the innovative thinking and innovative in different population. 3 Students with high innovative psychological quality have low learning score. The innovative personality decreases with the increase of grade.