TY - JOUR
T1 - Personality and psychological factors predict imagination
T2 - Evidence from Taiwan
AU - Liang, Chaoyun
AU - Chang, Chi Cheng
AU - Hsu, Yuling
N1 - Funding Information:
The current study is part of the research project ( NSC100-2511-S-155-005-MY2 ) supported by Taiwan's National Science Council . The authors would like to extend their gratitude to Li-Chong Lin of National Taiwan University for his valuable contributions in the statistical analysis. Furthermore, the authors also would like to acknowledge the insightful suggestions of anonymous Learning and Individual Differences reviewers.
PY - 2013/10
Y1 - 2013/10
N2 - Little research has been done to determine whether psychological factors and personality traits make independent contributions to creativity or whether they interact with one another to affect an individual's creative behavior. The present study thus aimed at analyzing the effects of both personality and psychological factors on student imagination as one main characteristic of creative behavior. A survey (N= 891) was administered at nine universities across different regions of Taiwan. The hypothesis of the study-that the variable of intrinsic motivation mediates the effects of personality/psychological variables and both types of imagination-was partially supported. The structural model also showed that most personality traits had direct effects on imagination, while most psychological variables had indirect effects. In addition, the trait of openness was identified as the most influential variable on both types of imagination, while conscientiousness had a distinctive role in evoking reproductive imagination. Furthermore, this study also sheds light on the variables of inspiration through action and self-efficacy which can greatly trigger student imagination.
AB - Little research has been done to determine whether psychological factors and personality traits make independent contributions to creativity or whether they interact with one another to affect an individual's creative behavior. The present study thus aimed at analyzing the effects of both personality and psychological factors on student imagination as one main characteristic of creative behavior. A survey (N= 891) was administered at nine universities across different regions of Taiwan. The hypothesis of the study-that the variable of intrinsic motivation mediates the effects of personality/psychological variables and both types of imagination-was partially supported. The structural model also showed that most personality traits had direct effects on imagination, while most psychological variables had indirect effects. In addition, the trait of openness was identified as the most influential variable on both types of imagination, while conscientiousness had a distinctive role in evoking reproductive imagination. Furthermore, this study also sheds light on the variables of inspiration through action and self-efficacy which can greatly trigger student imagination.
KW - Imagination
KW - Intrinsic motivation
KW - Mediator effect
KW - Personality traits
KW - Psychological factors
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U2 - 10.1016/j.lindif.2013.06.010
DO - 10.1016/j.lindif.2013.06.010
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84880977783
SN - 1041-6080
VL - 27
SP - 67
EP - 74
JO - Learning and Individual Differences
JF - Learning and Individual Differences
ER -