Journal
PERSONALITY AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES
Volume 168, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.paid.2020.110369
Keywords
Creativity; Rearing; Warmth; Rejection; Openness; Dark traits
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- Happiness of Flower Project at East China Normal University [2019ECNU-XFZH015]
- Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities [41300-20101-222665]
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Family plays an important role in shaping one's creativity, as shown in the study where parental warmth and rejection were both positively associated with creativity. Openness fully mediated the influence of parental warmth on creativity, while Machiavellianism served as a partial mediator between parental rejection and creative activities.
Family plays an important role in shaping one's creativity. In the current study, 559 college students, ranging from 18 to 30 years of age, were recruited to complete a survey measuring perceptions of their parents' rearing styles (warmth & rejection), personality traits (openness & the dark triad, including narcissism, Machiavellianism, & psychopathy), and creativity (originality, creative activities, & creative achievements). Using structural equation modeling, we found that both parental warmth and parental rejection were positively associated with creativity. More importantly, openness fully mediated the influence of warmth on all the indices of creativity. However, only Machiavellianism, of the three dark traits, served as a partial mediator between the effects of parental rejection on creative activities. Results are further discussed from the perspective of eastern-western cultural differences.
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