Investigating the Relationship Between Middle School Students' Social Creativity and Dimensions of Parenting Styles

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  In Roundtable Session: Research on Giftedness, Creativity, and Talent SIG Roundtable: Creativity (Table 9)

Abstract

Associations between dimensions of social creativity (i.e., Peer Influence, Problem-Solving Quality, Social Initiative, Social Ability, and Interpersonal Self-Confidence) and parenting styles, including Emotional Warmth, Strictness and Punishment, Overinvolvement, Favouring Subject, and Rejection, were investigated among 823 Chinese middle school students. The impacts of having siblings and parents' education on social creativity were also examined. Results showed that parents' "Emotional Warmth" was positively associated with dimensions of social creativity. In contrast with findings from western samples, Chinese Mothers' "Strictness and Punishment" was positively associated with children's "Interpersonal Self-Confidence." Mothers' "Favouring Subject" and "Rejection" were negatively associated with students' "Social Initiative" and "Interpersonal Self-Confidence", respectively. Students with siblings showed higher social creativity; parents' education was not associated with students' social creativity.

Authors

• Fang Wang, University of South Carolina
  Presenting Author

• Ruiqin Gao, University of South Carolina
  Non-Presenting Author

• Yukang Xue, University at Albany - SUNY
  Non-Presenting Author

• Robbie Ross, University of South Carolina
  Non-Presenting Author

• Huijuan Wang
  Non-Presenting Author

• Han Wang, University of South Carolina
  Non-Presenting Author