Some characteristics of the parents of creative twelve‐year‐olds

Dewing, Kathleen; Taft, Ronald

doi:10.1111/j.1467-6494.1973.tb00661.x

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“…Albert (1992), summarizing a long tradition in the study of eminence (e.g., Barron, 1963;Brooks, 1973;Dewing & Taft, 1973;Getzels & Jackson, 1962;Helson, 1965Helson, , 1966MacKinnon, 1962MacKinnon, , 1964MacKinnon, , 1967Terman, 1954) characterized these families as having a wobble ''built into many of its relationships, roles, allocation of attention and resources, and clarity of communication.'' That is, ''the creative person-to-be comes from a family that is anything but harmonious.…”

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The Early Lives of Highly Creative Persons: The Influence of the Complex Family

Gute

Nakamura

et al. 2008

Creativity Research Journal

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The Early Lives of Highly Creative Persons: The Influence of the Complex Family

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Nakamura

et al. 2008

Creativity Research Journal

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“…Moreover, high SES parents themselves could serve as good role models for children to achieve high quality diversified life experience. For example, Dewing and Taft (1973) reported that mothers of creative girls had a greater number of interests than comparison mothers. In addition, there are also some studies revealing that parental level of creativity can positively predict children's level of creativity (Fearon, Copeland & Saxon, 2013;Runco, 2014).…”

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Reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles: Diversity of life experience mediates the relationship between family SES and creativity

Pang

2019

Scandinavian J Psychology

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This study examined the relationship between family SES and children’s creativity, and tested the mediating role of diversity of life experience in this relationship. A total of 204 undergraduates (54 males and 150 females), aged between 17 and 23 years, completed a family SES questionnaire, diversity of life experience questionnaire, biographical inventory of creative behaviors, and alternative uses tasks (AUT). The results showed positive associations between family SES, diversity of life experience, and different indices of creativity. Additionally, mediation analyses indicated that diversity of life experience fully mediated the effect of family SES on creative behavior and AUT originality. In accordance with the family investment model, these results confirmed the positive association between family SES and creativity, and identified diversity of life experience as a mediating variable through which family SES influences creativity performance. Implications and future directions are discussed in detail.

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“…Parents of highly creative people are consistently found to be less authoritarian, more open to opportunities to nurture and develop their children's creative and critical thinking abilities, defer judgment, tolerate their children's failure, and set examples of copying strategies for their children (Cook, Wittig, & Treffinger, 2004;Dewing & Taft, 1973;Gute, Gute, Nakamura, & Csikszentmihalyi, 2008).…”

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Predicting Creative Problem-Solving in Math From a Dynamic System Model of Creative Problem Solving Ability

Lin¹,

Cho²

2011

Creativity Research Journal

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Six attributes of creative problem-solving ability were investigated as predictors of creative problem solving ability in math. A total of 409 Taiwanese fifth and sixth graders were administered the recently developed Creative Problem Solving Attributes Inventory and other corresponding established instruments that measure similar attributes. The Creative Problem Solving Attributes Inventory yielded valid and reliable data on creative problem solving attributes. Results also demonstrated that divergent thinking and domain specific knowledge and skills directly predicted math problemsolving ability, whereas divergent thinking, convergent thinking, motivation, general knowledge and skills, and environment indirectly predicted math problem solving ability. Implications for nurturing creative problem solving ability and limitations of the study are discussed.

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Some characteristics of the parents of creative twelve‐year‐olds

Cited by 35 publications

References 15 publications

The Early Lives of Highly Creative Persons: The Influence of the Complex Family

The Early Lives of Highly Creative Persons: The Influence of the Complex Family

Reading thousands of books and traveling thousands of miles: Diversity of life experience mediates the relationship between family SES and creativity

Predicting Creative Problem-Solving in Math From a Dynamic System Model of Creative Problem Solving Ability

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