Abstract: In this historiometric study,early family environment and parental behavior of 30 Chinese social creative personalities who passed away after A.D.1840 were rated based on their biographies or autobiographies,from ten dimensions of Chinese Version of Family Environment Scale(FES-CV)and five dimensions of Parental Behavior Inventory(EMBU)on an interval scale.The results were as follows.(1)Their family scored higher on the dimensions of control,organization,cohesion,independence,moral-religious emphasis,and scored lower on the dimension of conflict;three main components(family values and interpersonal relationship,family order,family activeness)were drawn from the ten dimensions of FES-CV through exploratory factor analysis.(2)"Stern-father-and-loving-mother" parental behavioral style was the most common one;two main components(parental sternness and parental loving-kindness)were drawn from the ten dimensions of EMBU through exploratory factor analysis.(3) Cluster analysis indicated that,both their early family environment and parental behavioral style could be classified into two(low-control traditional and high-control traditional family environment,stern parental behavioral style and loving parental behavioral style.

Key words: social creative personalities, family environment, parental behavioral style, historiometric study