Relationship among Educational Rearing, Personality and Divergent Thinking of Parents

The purpose of the study is to explore the relationship between educational rearing, personality and divergent thinking of parents. This study examined the educational rearing of parents in the dimensions of attentional rearing, motivational rearing, facilitative rearing and discipline and value rearing, personality of parents in the dimensions of neuroticism, extraversion, openness to experience, agreeableness and conscientiousness and divergent thinking of parents in dimensions of originality, fluency, flexibility and elaboration. Data on a sample of 200 participants (50 families of urban area and 50 families of rural area) both male and female were collected through purposive sampling. Results indicated that for agreeableness, conscientiousness, originality, fluency and flexibility are high on educational rearing.