Causal Effects of Creative Home Environment and Emotional and Cognitive Variables on Children's Creativity

유아의 창의성에 영향을 미치는 창의적 가정환경과 정의적·인지적 변인간의 인과관계

This study used path analysis to investigate causal effects of creative home environment and emotional and cognitive variables on children's creative thinking and characteristics. the subjects were 233 5- and 6-year-old children, their mothers and teachers in the City of Taegu and Kyungpook Province. Major results were that (1) creative home environment directly affected children's creative thinking, creative characteristics and motivation. (2) Children's motivation directly affected children's creative characteristics. (3) Children's temperament directly affected motivation and indirectly affected children's creative characteristics through motivation. (4) Children's intelligence directly affected knowledge, and indirectly affected children's creative thinking through knowledge.