The Impact of Culture and Individualism–Collectivism on the Creative Potential and Achievement of American and Chinese Adults

Zha, Peijia; Walczyk, Jeffrey J.; Griffith-Ross, Diana A.; Tobacyk, Jerome; Walczyk, Daniel F.

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“…Differences in creative collaboration between two groups may indicate that those in collectivist cultures such as China are more likely to cooperate with others or work together as group members than those in individualist cultures. Results of the current study contrast with those of Zha et al [68], who found that American students (vs. Chinese) scored higher on the creative potential factors of fluency, originality, elaboration, and titles. The difference in results could be due to the manner in which creativity was measured.…”

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“…Compared with members of other cultures, U.S. individuals scored high in achievement motivation, autonomy, impulsiveness, openness to experience, nonconformity, self-confidence, and self-acceptance [59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67]. Zha, Walczyk, Griffith-Ross, Tobacyk and Walczyk [68] compared Chinese and American graduate students and found that American students (vs. Chinese) scored higher on four of the five components of divergent thinking (creative potential factors of fluency, originality, elaboration, and titles) but not flexibility. American students were more individualistic; Chinese were more collectivistic.…”

Section: Creative Attitudes and Culturementioning

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Perception of Time, Creative Attitudes, and Adoption of Innovations: A Cross-Cultural Study from Chinese and US College Students

2016

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This study explores how earlier (vs. later) adopters of innovation differ in time perception and creative attitudes, comparing Chinese and US college students. Research on the perception of time and creative attitudes is useful to understand how sustainability and creative collaboration might work together. Various relationships exist between different levels of innovation adoption groups and creative attitudes or perceptions of time. We found that earlier adopters scored higher on economic time and future time orientation. This may indicate that earlier adopters are sensitive about their planned schedule. Also, earlier adopters with a future time orientation are forward-thinking and anticipate the introduction of new styles, items, or events in the future. We also find that Chinese (vs. US) participants scored higher on creative capacity and creative collaboration but did not differ in general creative attitudes or creative risk-taking. For all participants from these two countries, earlier adopters (vs. later) scored higher on all aspects of creative attitudes. This study suggests academic and practical implications regarding sustainability issues. From an academic perspective, this study adds a new perspective to the literature about the relationships among time of adoption, time perception, creative attitudes, and cultural values, and is especially useful for how these four variables influence sustainability. From a practitioner perspective, this study provides information of how consumer values and attitudes in a developing economy (China) and a developed economy (US) might facilitate open innovation and induce sustainability.

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Perception of Time, Creative Attitudes, and Adoption of Innovations: A Cross-Cultural Study from Chinese and US College Students

2016

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“…Torrance and his colleagues (e.g., Ball & Torrance, 1978;Torrance & Sato, 1979) also demonstrated cultural differences in participants' performance on divergent thinking tests. A more recent study (Zha, Walczyk, Griffith-Ross, Tobacyk, & Walczyk, 2006) showed that American doctoral students obtained significantly higher divergent thinking scores compared to their Chinese counterparts. These findings were also explained by the cultural differences in creativity.…”

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The Impact of Culture on the Creative Potential of American, Russian, and Iranian College Students

Kharkhurin

Motalleebi

2008

Creativity Research Journal

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This study presents evidence for the impact of sociocultural environment on creative potential. The divergent thinking performance of American, Russian, and Iranian college students was compared on the Abbreviated Torrance Test for Adults. The study revealed that, compared to the Iranians, Americans and Russians have superior abilities to consider a problem from different perspectives and to generate original solutions to a problem. The performance differences on the originality measure of the representatives of the Western and Eastern countries calls for the possible revisions of the traditional definition of creativity as a construct emphasizing originality in thinking. Although originality and innovation are inherent properties of creative behavior in the Western thought, it might have lesser value in the East.

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“…For example, it was reported that university students in Mexico were significantly more collectivistic than their counterparts in the United States (Shkodriani & Gibbons, 1995). American graduate students were found with both higher individualism and potential creativity than their Chinese counterparts, while the latter were more collectivistic and higherachieving (Zha, Walczyk, Griffith-Ross, & Tobacyk, 2006). In addition, Uskul, Hynie, and Lalonde (2004) reported that Turkish university students scored higher in interdependent self-construal than their Euro-Canadian counterparts and interdependence mediated the relationship between culture and self-reported actual closeness with family, friends and acquaintances.…”

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Predicting Singapore students' achievement goals in their English study: Self-construal and classroom goal structure

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Hogan

Paris

2011

Learning and Individual Differences

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The Impact of Culture and Individualism–Collectivism on the Creative Potential and Achievement of American and Chinese Adults

Cited by 119 publications

References 22 publications

Perception of Time, Creative Attitudes, and Adoption of Innovations: A Cross-Cultural Study from Chinese and US College Students

Perception of Time, Creative Attitudes, and Adoption of Innovations: A Cross-Cultural Study from Chinese and US College Students

The Impact of Culture on the Creative Potential of American, Russian, and Iranian College Students

Predicting Singapore students' achievement goals in their English study: Self-construal and classroom goal structure

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