Thinking Styles and Creativity: The Mediating Role of Psychological Adjustment in College Students

The observation and cultivation of university students’ creativity have always been of enormous concern to the Chinese government. The present research delved into the influence of three dimensions of the Chinese thinking style (Interconnection, Change, and Contradiction) on creativity and the media...

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Published in:Behavioral sciences 2023-10, Vol.13 (10), p.875
Main Authors: Liu, Zheng, Yu, Huihui, Feng, Minxuan, Hou, Yubo
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Cognition & reasoning
Cognitive style
College students
Colleges & universities
Creativity
Culture
Dialectics
Flexibility
holistic thinking
Mediation
Personal relationships
Physiology
Problem solving
psychology adjustment
Questionnaires
thinking style
University students
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Summary:The observation and cultivation of university students’ creativity have always been of enormous concern to the Chinese government. The present research delved into the influence of three dimensions of the Chinese thinking style (Interconnection, Change, and Contradiction) on creativity and the mediating role of psychological adjustment in college students. Specifically, Study 1 investigated the relationship between university students’ thinking styles and creativity through self-reported questionnaires. The results revealed that the thinking style of interconnections had a significant positive effect on creativity among university student groups, while the change dimension significantly negatively affected creativity. The relationship between the dimension of contradiction and creativity did not show significance. Study 2 manipulated thinking style by priming techniques, priming university students’ thinking styles of interconnections (Study 2a) and change (Study 2b), and verified the mediating role of psychological adjustment between thinking styles and creativity. Aside from replicating the findings of Study 1, the results showed that university students’ psychological adjustment mediated the positive effect of interconnections on fluency and the negative effect of change on fluency. These results and findings can provide a theoretical and practical reference for our government to cultivate university students’ creativity.
ISSN:2076-328X
2076-328X
DOI:10.3390/bs13100875