Abstract
Using testing and questionnaire methods, this study investigated the relationships among openness to experience, intelligence and creative thinking. This study focused on the moderating effects of openness to experience on the relationship between intelligence and creative thinking in a sample of 831 primary school students in China. The findings showed significant positive relationships among openness to experience, intelligence and creative thinking. In relation to the focus of this study, openness to experience moderated the relationship between intelligence and creative thinking. However, the correlation between openness to experience and creative thinking was stronger for urban children than for rural children, and the moderating effect existed only in urban settings.
Highlights
Openness to experience refers to the extent to which a person actively seeks and appreciates different experiences and tolerates and explores novel situations (Pervin, 2002)
Further analysis indicated urban children scored higher than rural children on all of these measures, Grade 6 scored higher than Grade 5 on intelligence and creative thinking, and girls scored
The point that personality traits are different from cognitive abilities has been challenged (DeYoung, 2011), the distinction between openness to experience, measured by self-report questionnaires, and intelligence, assessed by standardized psychometric tests, is clear
Summary
Openness to experience refers to the extent to which a person actively seeks and appreciates different experiences and tolerates and explores novel situations (Pervin, 2002). Creativity certainly requires cognitive abilities as measured by intelligence tests, but it involves affective and cognitive processes to activate or invest the cognitive resources at one’s disposal (McCrae and Ingraham, 1987; Sternberg and Lubart, 1996; Dai and Sternberg, 2004; Dai and Shen, 2008) This view of creativity is consistent with Eysenck’s (1997) model of creativity, which features the interplay of cognitive ability (or intelligence), personality traits, and environmental factors. Ivcevic and Brackett (2015) used a questionnaire method with 223 high school students and found that openness to experience had a moderating effect on the relationship between emotional regulation ability and creativity In another experimental study, van Tilburg et al (2015) found that openness to experience emerged as a mediator in the relation between nostalgia and creativity. We hypothesize the following: (1) both openness to experience and intelligence are positively correlated with creative thinking; (2) there is a significant interaction effect between openness to experience and intelligence—that is, openness to experience moderates the effects of intelligence on creative thinking; and (3) there is a difference between urban and rural subjects in terms of the moderating effect of openness to experience
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