TY - JOUR
T1 - Parental warmth, rejection, and creativity
T2 - The mediating roles of openness and dark personality traits
AU - Guo, Jiajun
AU - Zhang, Jing
AU - Pang, Weiguo
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2020 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2021/1/1
Y1 - 2021/1/1
N2 - Family plays an important role in shaping one's creativity. In the current study, 559 college students, ranging from 18 to 30 years of age, were recruited to complete a survey measuring perceptions of their parents' rearing styles (warmth & rejection), personality traits (openness & the dark triad, including narcissism, Machiavellianism, & psychopathy), and creativity (originality, creative activities, & creative achievements). Using structural equation modeling, we found that both parental warmth and parental rejection were positively associated with creativity. More importantly, openness fully mediated the influence of warmth on all the indices of creativity. However, only Machiavellianism, of the three dark traits, served as a partial mediator between the effects of parental rejection on creative activities. Results are further discussed from the perspective of eastern-western cultural differences.
AB - Family plays an important role in shaping one's creativity. In the current study, 559 college students, ranging from 18 to 30 years of age, were recruited to complete a survey measuring perceptions of their parents' rearing styles (warmth & rejection), personality traits (openness & the dark triad, including narcissism, Machiavellianism, & psychopathy), and creativity (originality, creative activities, & creative achievements). Using structural equation modeling, we found that both parental warmth and parental rejection were positively associated with creativity. More importantly, openness fully mediated the influence of warmth on all the indices of creativity. However, only Machiavellianism, of the three dark traits, served as a partial mediator between the effects of parental rejection on creative activities. Results are further discussed from the perspective of eastern-western cultural differences.
KW - Creativity
KW - Dark traits
KW - Openness
KW - Rearing
KW - Rejection
KW - Warmth
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85090335800
U2 - 10.1016/j.paid.2020.110369
DO - 10.1016/j.paid.2020.110369
M3 - 文章
AN - SCOPUS:85090335800
SN - 0191-8869
VL - 168
JO - Personality and Individual Differences
JF - Personality and Individual Differences
M1 - 110369
ER -