Abstract
Objective: To examine whether emotional intelligence played a mediation role in the association between parent-child relationship and vocational college student’s creativity, and whether grit moderated this mediating process.Methods: 663 vocational college students participated in this study and completed four questionnaires at three time points, which included measures of parent-child relationship, creativity, emotional intelligence, and grit.Results: (1) Emotional intelligence mediated the relationship between parent-child relationship and vocational college student’s creativity; (2) grit moderated the mediating role of emotional intelligence between parent-child relationship and vocational college student’s creativity.Conclusion: Parent-child relationship had both direct effects on vocational college student’s creativity and indirect effects through emotional intelligence. Grit moderates the effect of emotional intelligence on vocational college student’s creativity.
Highlights
In recent years, technological innovation is an important engine for national development
The main purpose of this study is to explore the mechanism of parent-child relationship affecting individual creativity, to examine whether emotional intelligence mediates this relationship, and whether grit moderates the influence of emotional intelligence on individual creativity
This study builds a moderated mediation model to test the relations of grit and emotional intelligence and parent-child relationship and individual creativity
Summary
Technological innovation is an important engine for national development. It is important to improve individual creativity, because creativity can help promote the adjustment of the country’s economic structure and continuously enhance the new impetus for economic development. Creativity is an important indicator for the cultivation of innovative talents in colleges and universities, especially for vocational college students. The future career of vocational college students is mainly based on technology, and the cultivation of their innovation is an important part of the country’s innovative talent reserve (Xue and Li, 2021). In the era of advocating innovation, it is necessary to explore the mechanisms that relate to individual creativity in order to effectively develop individual creativity and enhance the creative ability of vocational college students. Based on the person-environment fit theories of creativity, this research explores the Creativity of Vocational College Students impact of parent-child relationship as environmental factors, emotional intelligence, and grit as individual factors on creativity of vocational college students
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