Creativity, efficacy and their organizational, cultural influences.

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Autor/in	Yi, Xinfa
Titel	Creativity, efficacy and their organizational, cultural influences. Gefälligkeitsübersetzung: Die Kreativität, die Wirksamkeit und der organisatorische, kulturelle Einfluss.
Quelle	Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin (2008), VI, 201 S. PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (1); PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei (2) Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit Berlin, Freie Universität Berlin, Diss., 2008.
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; Monographie
URN	urn:nbn:de:kobv:188-fudissthesis000000004778-4
Schlagwörter	Kreativität; Kultureinfluss; Dissertation; Wirksamkeit
Abstract	Enhancing creativity is important not only for individual but for the whole society. The condition to enhance creativity is to make it clear how about the process of creativity development or expression and the mechanism of individual or environmental, cultural influences, which is a somewhat new, meaningful and challenging topic for psychologists. A high level self-efficacy is thought to be related to better mental, physical health and easier social adaption (Schwarzer, 1992; Bandura, 1997). To examine the cultural and environmental impact on self-efficacy is also necessary for the development of proper intervention. This doctoral thesis addressed Cultural Pyramid Model of Creativity (CPMC). To examine the relations between culture or climate and self-efficacy, artistic or general creativity expression, different research approaches, such as cross-cultural experiment designs of artistic creativity, cross-sectional designs of the creative organizational climate and creativity development, were carried out in four empirical studies. Investigations were done in creativity, self and collective - efficacy, and creative organizational climate. Participants were Chinese students and teachers from elementary, secondary schools and college students from German and Chinese universities. The new model of creativity-Cultural Pyramid Model of Creativity (CPMC) (Chapter 1) was developed and got partly confirmed by the four studies. Firstly, the meaningful cultural difference between Germans and Chinese was found. The difference demonstrated that the artistic creativity of German students is significant higher than that of Chinese students. The findings showed that culture can directly influence people´s artistic creativity. There is a strong tendency for people in different cultures to express their artistic creativity in different ways. The results of Chapter 4 showed that it is significant the impacting effect of creative organizational climate of school on creativity development of students. Moreover, the study indicated that there were no significant differences in artistic creativity performance not only between Asian-Germans and Caucasian-Germans, but also between Chinese studying abroad and domestic Chinese. The results demonstrated that multicultural experience can not automatically enhance artistic creativity, and it may depend on the extent of the individual´s immersing themselves in foreign cultures (Chapter 2, Chapter 4). The results of Chapter 3 showed that there were significant differences on cultural efficacy among Caucasian-Germans, Asian-Germans, Chinese studying abroad and domestic Chinese. However, there were no cultural, bicultural, and bilingual differences in general selfefficacy and creativity self-efficacy between German and Chinese participants. The results of Chapter 5 demonstrated that there were significant teaching duration, age differences and significant two-way school × teaching subject interaction in creative organizational climate and significant gender difference in general self-efficacy. Path analysis indicated that the significant path coefficients were from creativity organizational climate to cultural efficacy of own culture, general self-efficacy, from general self-efficacy to cultural efficacy of own culture and creativity self-efficacy, and from cultural efficacy of own culture to creativity selfefficacy. There was only indirect pathway from creative organizational climate to creativity self-efficacy (Chapter 3, Chapter 5). Additionally, the methodological implications for the future research and the practical implications for Educational Practice, Creativity and Efficacy Promotion were discussed. (Orig.).
Erfasst von	Deutsche Nationalbibliothek, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2012/4