Psychological Development and Education ›› 2014, Vol. 30 ›› Issue (4): 355-362.

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The Characteristics of Adolescents' Creative Thinking and Their Effects on Creative Behavior: The Mediating Role of Personality

SUN Peng, ZOU Hong, DU Yao-lin   

  1. Institute of developmental psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875
  • Online:2014-07-15 Published:2014-07-15

Abstract: The present study aimed at exploring the characteristics of adolescents' creative thinking and its effect on their creative behavior, as well as the mediating effect of personality. Verbal and Figural Creative Thinking Task, adolescence's Five-Factor Personality Questionnaires and Middle School Students' Everyday Creative Behavior Questionnaires were administered to the sample of 1048 middle school students. The results showed that: 1) Girls scored significantly higher on verbal creative thinking's fluency, flexibility dimensions and all the dimensions of figural creative thinking than boys; in terms of grades, the peak appeared in the first grade of senior high school, this grade outperformed all the other grades on fluency and flexibility. 2) Simple correlation results indicated several pairs of significant positive relation: between verbal creative thinking and Openness, Extraversion, Language/Literature, Music/Performing Arts, Interpersonal/Social Activity; between figural creative thinking and Openness, Language/Literature, Music/Performing Arts, Craft/Fine Arts. 3) Openness and Extraversion completely mediated between verbal creative thinking and creative behavior, but their mediation role showed no significance between figural creative thinking and creative behavior.

Key words: creative thinking, personality, creative behavior

CLC Number: 

  • B844.2

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