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Emotions, Openness to Experience, Self-efficacy and Creativity: The mediating role of self-efficacy

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김경은

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pp. 1~18 / 2011 Vol.18 No.1

Abstract

This study investigated the manner in which emotion, openness to experience and self-efficacy related to creativity and explored the mediating role of self-efficacy in emotion-creativity and personality-creativity relationships. The participants of this study were 187 pre-service kindergarten teachers enrolled in the the Department of Early Childhood Education and the Child Study from around the Seoul Greater Metropolitan area. The results revealed that positive emotions related positively to openness to experience, self-efficacy and creativity but in contrast, negative emotions related negatively to openness to experience, self-efficacy and creativity. Openness to experience related positively to self-efficacy and creativity and self-efficacy related positively to creativity. Furthermore, self-regulation was found to mediate the effects of positive emotions and openness to experience on pre-service kindergarten teachers' creativity. The influence of positive emotions and openness to experience on pre-service kindergarten teachers' creativity occurred indirectly through the facilitation of self-efficacy. The importance of positive emotions, openness to experience and self-efficacy to predict pre-service kindergarten teachers is also discussed. Key words : pre-service kindergarten teachers, emotion, openness to experience, self-efficacy, creativity, self-regulation, mediating effect, SEM

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