Hope and Creative Self-Efficacy as Sequential Mediators in the Relationship Between Family Socioeconomic Status and Creativity.

Wenling Liu,Yinyinzi Yang,Weiguo Pang,Xiaobo Xu

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00438

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https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00438

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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to evaluate how socioeconomic status (SES) predicts individual creativity through the mediating roles of hope and creative self-efficacy (CSE). Participants were recruited from ten universities in Mainland China. Students’ SES, hope, CSE, and creativity were assessed via the socioeconomic status scale, the adult hope scale, the creative self-efficacy scale, and the Runco Ideational Behavior Scale. Correlational analyses indicate that SES, creative ideation, hope, and CSE were significantly and positively associated with each other. Path analyses revealed that hope and CSE played sequential mediating roles in the link between SES and creative ideation. These findings suggest that hope and CSE underlie the effect of SES on individuals’ creative ideation.

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Creativity is defined as the ability to generate original and useful ideas or solutions to problems (Sternberg and Lubart, 1999)
These results indicate that hope and creative self-efficacy (CSE) partially mediate the relationship between socioeconomic status (SES) and creative ideation
The descriptive results are consistent with previous research that suggests that these variables are positively related (Hypothesis 1) (Tierney and Farmer, 2002; Avey et al, 2008; Dai et al, 2012; Kraus et al, 2012)

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Creativity is defined as the ability to generate original and useful ideas or solutions to problems (Sternberg and Lubart, 1999). Previous research has illustrated the mediating roles of intelligence (Shi and Shen, 2007), motivation (Dai et al, 2012) and personality (Zhang et al, 2018), fewer studies focused on the mediating effect of the expectational factors (e.g., hope). In his 30-year longitudinal study, Torrance (2004) found that personal perceptions of the future are far more predictive of later creative achievement than past achievements or traits. The main purpose of this study was to explore the possible effect of hope on the association of SES and creativity

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