Association between Children’s Imaginational Overexcitability and Parent‐Reported Creative Potential

Cognitive and Affective Play Processes as Potential Mediators

Datos Bibliográficos

ID21345283
AutoresWing Kai Fung (0000-0002-9539-4748, Education University of Hong Kong, autor de correspondencia), Kevin Kien Hoa Chung (0000-0002-8105-7361, Education University of Hong Kong), Mavis Wu‐jing He (Education University of Hong Kong)
Año2021
Volumen55
Número4
Páginas962-969
Fecha de publicación2021-12-01
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaThe Journal of Creative Behavior (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0022-0175 • E-ISSN: 2162-6057
EditorialWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1002/jocb.501
OpenAlexW3159873055
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas8
Referencias citadas29

This study examined the direct and indirect associations among imaginational over‐excitability, cognitive play processes, affective play processes, and parent‐reported creative potential of Hong Kong Chinese kindergarten children. Participants were 106 parents of local kindergarten children (43.4% girls, mean age = 60.1 months). Parents reported their child’s imaginational over‐excitability, cognitive play processes, affective play processes, and creative potential through a questionnaire. Results from the path model revealed that children’s imaginational over‐excitability was positively associated with their cognitive and affective play processes. Children’s parent‐reported creative potential was significantly related to their cognitive play processes but marginally related to their affective play processes. Furthermore, the relationship between imaginational over‐excitability and parent‐reported creative potential was fully mediated by children’s cognitive and affective play processes. Theoretically, the findings suggest that children’s cognitive and affective play processes may explain the association between their imaginational over‐excitability and parent‐reported creative potential. Practically speaking, the results highlight the importance of providing imaginative children with opportunities and supports to carry out imaginative pretend play so as to promote their creative potential

Affect (linguistics) · Association (psychology) · Cognition · Developmental psychology · Path analysis (statistics) · Psychiatry · Psychotherapist · Communication · Creativity in Education and Neuroscience · Education, Achievement, and Giftedness · Neuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function · Psychology