A Study on the Relationship among Junior High School Students’ Impression Management of Appearance,Wearing Style and Creativity in Tainan City

• Main Authors: Hui-Min Chen, 陳惠敏
• Other Authors: Chien-Heng Yeh Ph.D
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2013
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/86616804349422344286

碩士 === 台南應用科技大學 === 生活應用科學研究所 === 101 === The purposes of this study were to explore whether the junior high school students from different backgrounds have different performance on students’ Impression Management of Appearance, wearing style, and creativity (including creative life experience and graphic creative thinking ability ) as well as the relationship among these four variables. This study adopted convenient sampling to investigate students of grade 7, 8 and 9 in Tainan by questionnaires, including the "Impression Management of Appearance Scale", "Wearing Style Scale", "Creative Life Scale" and "Graphic creative thinking ability". The returned valid questionnaires were amount to 488. Furthermore, the collected data were analyzed through T-test, ANOVA, Pearson correlation analysis and multiple regression analysis. 1.As far as the gender is concerned, there is a significant difference on the "Impression Management of Appearance", in which girls got higher score than boys. There is also a significant difference in the "Never Mind of wearing style", in which boys got higher score than girls. Additionally, there is a significant difference on "Graphic creative thinking ability", in which girls got higher score than boys. 2.As far as the grade is concerned, there is a significant difference on the "Impression Management of Appearance", in which 8th and 9th graders got higher score than 7th graders. There is also a significant difference on the "Conservative Style of wearing style", in which 7th and 8th graders got higher score than 9th graders. In addition, there is a significant difference on "Graphic creative thinking ability", in which 9th graders got higher score than 7th graders. 3.As far as the socio-economic status of family is concerned, the students from high SES family got higher score than low ones on the "fashion style of wearing style" and "visual design life". The students from low SES got higher score than higher ones on the "Conservative Style of wearing style". 4.There was a significantly positive correlation between the"Impression Management" of Appearance and "Creative", "Fashion" and "Casual" of "wearing style"; however, there was a significantly negative correlation between the "Impression Management of Appearance" and "Never Mind of wearing style". 5.There was a significantly positive correlation between the "Impression Management of Appearance" and "creative life". In contrast, there was no significant correlation between "Impression Management of Appearance "and "Graphic creative thinking ability" . 6.There were significantly positive correlations between the "Creative" of "wearing style" and "Graphic creative thinking ability", "Casual" of "wearing style" and "Graphic creative thinking ability". There were also significantly positive correlations between the "Creative", "Fashion", "Conservative Style" and "Casual" of "wearing style" and "experiences of creative life". Besides, there was a significantly negative correlation between "experiences of creative life" and "Never Mind" of "wearing style". 7."Creative"and"Casual"of"wearing style "and "Enjoy in dressing" of "Impression Management of Appearance" could significantly predict the "experiences of creative life".However, "Gender" and "creative wearing style" could significantly predict "Graphic creative thinking ability". Finally, research recommendations and educative implication were discussed based aforementioned results.