The impact of creative tendency, academic performance, and self-concept on creative science problem-finding.
This study was designed to address the impacts of science performance, science self-concept, and creative tendency on the creative science problem-finding (CSPF) ability of a sample of Chinese middle-school students. Structural equation modeling was used to indicate that CSPF could be directly predicted by creative tendency and academic performance, and indirectly predicted by science self-concept. The findings strongly support the idea that curiosity, imagination, and domain-specific knowledge are important for CSPF, and science self-concept could be mediated by knowledge that affects CSPF.
Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Mingxin
M
Liu
Department of Psychology, Shaanxi Normal University, Shaanxi, China.
Weiping
W
Hu
Kings College, London, UK.
Philip
P
Adey
Faculty of Education, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
Li
L
Cheng
Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China.
Xingli
X
Zhang
creative problem-finding; creative tendency; middle-school student; science performance; science self-concept