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<p>The amount of attention given to creative beliefs has increased in recent years. We wanted to answer a call for more research on the antecedents of creative self-concept, assessing the influence of parental autonomy support in the context of business education. Participants were 272 college students from Mexico who completed a battery of questionnaires assessing parental autonomy support, creative self-concept, self-reported ideation, and a divergent thinking task. Results showed a positive relationship between business-specific parental autonomy support and creative self-concept. In addition, creative self-concept had positive relationships with self-reported creative ideation and creative potential in the form of an originality index. Our results suggested that parental support was important to help students have confidence and the motivation to value the process of generating novel and useful business ideas. The implications of the results were discussed.</p>
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The amount of attention given to creative beliefs has increased in recent years. We wanted to answer a call for more research on the antecedents of creative self-concept, assessing the influence of parental autonomy support in the context of business education. Participants were 272 college students from Mexico who completed a battery of questionnaires assessing parental autonomy support, creative self-concept, self-reported ideation, and a divergent thinking task. Results showed a positive relationship between business-specific parental autonomy support and creative self-concept. In addition, creative self-concept had positive relationships with self-reported creative ideation and creative potential in the form of an originality index. Our results suggested that parental support was important to help students have confidence and the motivation to value the process of generating novel and useful business ideas. The implications of the results were discussed.

The Influence of Parental Autonomy Support on Creative Self-concept in the Context of Business Education

Popular Autonomous University of the State of Puebla

Creativity. Theories – Research - Applications

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The amount of attention given to creative beliefs has increased in recent years. We wanted to answer a call for more research on the antecedents of creative...

The Influence of Parental Autonomy Support on Creative Self-concept in the Context of Business Education

Publié en ligne: 04 févr. 2023

Pages: 43 - 54

Reçu: 03 mai 2022

Accepté: 27 déc. 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ctra-2022-0011

Mots clés
Creative self-concept, parental support, creative potential

© 2022 Rogelio Puente-Díaz et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

The Influence of Parental Autonomy Support on Creative Self-concept in the Context of Business Education

Publié en ligne: 04 févr. 2023

Pages: 43 - 54

Reçu: 03 mai 2022

Accepté: 27 déc. 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/ctra-2022-0011

Mots clésCreative self-concept, parental support, creative potential

© 2022 Rogelio Puente-Díaz et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 3.0 License.

Mots clés
Creative self-concept, parental support, creative potential