How Family's Support of Perseverance in Creative Efforts Influences the Originality of Children's Drawing During the Period of COVID-19 Pandemic?

Bowen Shi,Ziwei Xing,Chaoying Tang,Mei Yang

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2021.600810

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This study points out that families' support of perseverance in creative efforts will increase children's originality of creative drawing through children's persistence in information searching. Data analysis based on 134 Chinese young children's creative drawings and survey supports the above hypothesis. Moreover, children's exposure to COVID-19 pandemic positively moderates the relationship between supporting perseverance and children's search persistence, such that high exposure to COVID-19 pandemic will increase the positive relationship between support of perseverance and search persistence. And children's prosocial motivation inhibits the influence of search persistence on originality. Contributions to the theory of children's creativity are discussed.

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“Creativity,” defined as the originality and usefulness of outputs (Plucker et al, 2004), is important for children’s growth and success in the future
We propose that family’s support of perseverance in creative efforts (FSPCE) will influence originality through children’s search persistence
We argue that children’s prosocial motivation will negatively moderate the correlation between search persistence and originality

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“Creativity,” defined as the originality and usefulness of outputs (Plucker et al, 2004), is important for children’s growth and success in the future. Support of Perseverance and Originality each other more frequently and parents have a greater influence on children when asked to stay at home In this period, children’s behaviors and the originality they manifest may be affected by the family environment and social environment (exposure extent to the pandemic). Little research was conducted to investigate the relationship between family influence, student behavior and originality and whether this relationship could be affected by the pandemic and personal trait To address this gap, our study focused on family’s support of perseverance in creative efforts (FSPCE), one dimension of family creativity climate, and its effect on children’s search persistence and originality. We present the following hypothesis: Hypothesis 1: Search persistence positively influences the originality of children’s creative drawings

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