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The Effect of General Creative Personality and Freedom of Task Choice on Adolescents' Social Creativity
Author(s) -
Gu Chuanhua,
Hu Bi Ying,
Ngwira Flemmings Fishani,
Jing Zhi,
Zhou Zongkui
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
the journal of creative behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.896
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 2162-6057
pISSN - 0022-0175
DOI - 10.1002/jocb.74
Subject(s) - originality , creativity , fluency , personality , psychology , task (project management) , flexibility (engineering) , social psychology , developmental psychology , mathematics education , statistics , mathematics , management , economics
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.