ERIC Number: EJ1103286
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2016-Jun
Pages: 18
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The Effect of General Creative Personality and Freedom of Task Choice on Adolescents' Social Creativity
Gu, Chuanhua; Hu, Bi Ying; Ngwira, Flemmings Fishani; Jing, Zhi; Zhou, Zongkui
Journal of Creative Behavior, v50 n2 p132-149 Jun 2016
This study investigated the effect of general creative personality and freedom of task choice on the social creativity of adolescents. The results indicated, first, that senior high school students scored higher than junior high school students. Second, girls scored higher than boys on originality, fluency, flexibility, appropriateness, and utility with regard to creative social problem-solving. Third, freedom of task choice and its interaction with creative personality had significant effects on the originality, appropriateness, utility, flexibility, and fluency of social creativity. Adolescents who completed the task voluntarily scored higher on these dimensions than adolescents who completed it reluctantly and, among the voluntary adolescents, those with high and medium creative personality scored higher than those with low creative personality, whereas no such difference was found among the reluctant adolescents. Adolescents were more likely to show social creativity, and their general creative personality was more likely to be brought into effect under the freedom of task choice condition.
Descriptors: Personality, Freedom, High School Students, Gender Differences, Problem Solving, Task Analysis, Scores, Junior High School Students, Correlation, Decision Making, Creativity
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: High Schools; Secondary Education; Junior High Schools; Middle Schools
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Language: English
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