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The impact of creative tendency, academic performance, and self‐concept on creative science problem‐finding
Author(s) -
Liu Mingxin,
Hu Weiping,
Adey Philip,
Cheng Li,
Zhang Xingli
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
psych journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.417
H-Index - 14
eISSN - 2046-0260
pISSN - 2046-0252
DOI - 10.1002/pchj.13
Subject(s) - psychology , creative problem solving , mathematics education , creativity , sociology , social psychology
This study was designed to address the impacts of science performance, science self‐concept, and creative tendency on the creative science problem‐finding ( CSPF ) ability of a sample of C hinese middle‐school students. Structural equation modeling was used to indicate that CSPF could be directly predicted by creative tendency and academic performance, and indirectly predicted by science self‐concept. The findings strongly support the idea that curiosity, imagination, and domain‐specific knowledge are important for CSPF , and science self‐concept could be mediated by knowledge that affects CSPF .