Learning Styles and Creative Problem Solving among Musicians

Abstract

The study was conducted to understand whether there is any relation between Learning Strategies under which learning styles were taken as pertaining to the study and Creativity in which problem solving ability was taken as pertaining to the study among Musicians who play Guitar, Keyboard and Drums of among young adults belonging to the age group of 18-40 years of age This quantitative research design study used 2 different assessment tools which are Kolb’s Learning Styles and Passi-Usha Test of Creative Problem Solving which helps to assess the learning styles and creative problem solving ability. Convenient sampling and Snowball sampling methods were for data collection in this research and the total sample size was N=90, with 36 females and 54 Males. The statistical tools used in this study are Correlation and one-way Anova. The study aimed at understanding the relationship among the three variables in Young adults. The results revealed that there was no significant relationship between Creative Problem Solving and Abstract Conceptualization, Creative Problem Solving and Concrete Experience, Creative Problem Solving and Reflective Observation. The study found that there is a high negative correlation between Creative Problem Solving and Active Experimentation. The difference in the three variables of instrumentalists who are Guitarists, Keyboardists and Drummers with Creative Problem Solving was also analyzed which showed that there was no difference in the instrumentalists and Creative Problem Solving.