Ma Xiaoqing, Zhang Jinghuan, Zhang Xiaolei, Si Si
Faculty of Psychology, Shandong Normal University, Jinan, Shandong, China.
Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Brain Science and Mental Health, Jinan, Shandong, China.
J Youth Adolesc. 2025 Aug 8. doi: 10.1007/s10964-025-02234-4.
Previous studies have demonstrated the independent effects of parental autonomy support and need for cognition on creativity. However, it remains unclear how these factors jointly drive the development of creativity among adolescents, or how creativity shapes need for cognition and influences individuals' perceptions and constructions of their environments. Grounded on the framework of developmental cascades, this longitudinal study explored the dynamic relationships among parental autonomy support, need for cognition, and creativity development. Data were collected from 275 first-year middle school students from China (M = 12.730 ± 0.591, N = 150) in three waves with 1-year intervals. The results indicated that parental autonomy support had a diffusion effect on the development of both need for cognition and creativity; bidirectional relationships between need for cognition and creativity, as well as between parental autonomy support and need for cognition. These findings suggest that creativity develops through the cascading changes in parental autonomy support and need for cognition, providing both theoretical and empirical support for the cultivation and development of creativity among Chinese adolescents.
以往的研究已经证明了父母自主支持和认知需求对创造力的独立影响。然而，这些因素如何共同推动青少年创造力的发展，或者创造力如何塑造认知需求并影响个体对其环境的认知和构建，仍不清楚。基于发展级联框架，本纵向研究探讨了父母自主支持、认知需求和创造力发展之间的动态关系。研究数据来自中国275名初一学生（M = 12.730 ± 0.591，N = 150），分三次收集，每次间隔一年。结果表明，父母自主支持对认知需求和创造力的发展都有扩散效应；认知需求与创造力之间以及父母自主支持与认知需求之间存在双向关系。这些发现表明，创造力是通过父母自主支持和认知需求的级联变化而发展的，为中国青少年创造力的培养和发展提供了理论和实证支持。
