Parental Attitudes and Behaviors and Children’s Creativity

Authors

  • Sing Lau
  • Apple C. Y. Au
  • Toby M. Y. Tong
  • Jelena C. Y. Poon
  • Julia W. S. Wan

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5296/ijsw.v10i1.20901

Keywords:

Parenting, childhood, creativity development, social scenarios, Chinese parents and children

Abstract

Parental reactions are related to children creativity. To examine the relationship, two steps of research were constructed in the present study. One was a quantitative, journal-article search, another was a qualitative, book search. The first study was to develop scenarios as indicators for the second study to interview parents. Results showed that parents were keen on using children’s correct scenarios as indicators of creativity. They were also high on including children’s wide indicators. Findings from other social scenarios lent further support to the relationship. The present study provided new evidence in the creativity of parent-children search as well as for parents to watch out for new ways to develop children’ creativity development.

Author Biographies

Sing Lau

Center for Child Development, Faculty of Social Sciences, Hong Kong Baptist University

Apple C. Y. Au

Center for Child Development, Hong Kong Baptist University

Toby M. Y. Tong

Center for Child Development, Hong Kong Baptist University

Jelena C. Y. Poon

Center for Child Development, Hong Kong Baptist University

Julia W. S. Wan

Department of English Language and Literature, Hong Kong Baptist University

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Published

2024-06-19

How to Cite

Lau, S., Au, A. C. Y., Tong, T. M. Y., Poon, J. C. Y., & Wan, J. W. S. (2024). Parental Attitudes and Behaviors and Children’s Creativity. International Journal of Social Work, 10(1), 102–124. https://doi.org/10.5296/ijsw.v10i1.20901