A Study on the Cultural Influence of Implicit Theories of Creative Students Between Chinese and Germany Teachers

Abstract

Abstract: Implicit theories of creativity are constructed by people (whether psychologists or laypersons) that reside in the minds of these individuals, derived from their beliefs systems about creativity. A lot of researches indicated that individuals of different cultural and different environments have different beliefs of creativity. This research try to examine Chinese and Germany teachers core characteristic of creative students, whether to have domain-specific. Moreover, we explore the cultural influence to Chinese and Germany teachers beliefs of creative students. The researcher collected some adjectives that former studies had proved to describe creative person, and developed an adjective checklist which was made up of 59 adjectives as the instrument to examine teachers belief of creative students. 465 Chinese and Germany teachers participated this research.The results showed: There might be some universal core characteristics of creativity shared by people in all societies, such as originality, imagination, also have some domain-specific characteristics of creativity, such as divergent thinker, like challenges, curious, willing to try.The Chinese teachers are inclined to see collectivist and humor as characteristic of creative students, but the Germany teachers are inclined to see aesthetic and individualism.The Chinese teachers are inclined to see cooperative as characteristic of creative students, which accord with moral component; and see not rule-bound as characteristic of non-creative students.

摘要： 采用形容词核查表对465位中德两国中学教师关于创造性学生核心特征的内隐观特点进行考察，探讨其是否具有领域特殊性。得到以下结论:中德教师创造力内隐观既存在所有社会人共享的普遍核心特征，也存在自身领域的独特性。中国教师更倾向于将集体主义、幽默感、符合道德成分的“合作性”看作是创造性学生的特征，而德国教师更倾向于将艺术性、个人主义看作是创造性学生的特征。

关键词: 中德教师, 创造力内隐观, 比较

CLC Number:

B844.1

Yang Weigang,Wang Youzhi,Song Baoping,Shen Jiliang. A Study on the Cultural Influence of Implicit Theories of Creative Students Between Chinese and Germany Teachers[J]. Studies of Psychology and Behavior, 2014, 12(2): 156-160.

杨伟刚，王有智，宋宝萍，申继亮. 中德中学教师创造力内隐观跨文化研究[J]. 心理与行为研究, 2014, 12(2): 156-160.

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