PMID- 37103243
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20230501
IS  - 2079-3200 (Electronic)
IS  - 2079-3200 (Linking)
VI  - 11
IP  - 4
DP  - 2023 Mar 24
TI  - Childhood Maltreatment and Creativity among Chinese College Students: A Serial 
      Mediation Model.
LID - 10.3390/jintelligence11040058 [doi]
LID - 58
AB  - Creativity plays a very crucial impact on our cultural life and has also been 
      important to the improvement of human civilization. Numerous studies have 
      indicated that family circumstance plays an important role in the development of 
      individual creativity. However, little is known about the mediating mechanisms 
      underlying the association between childhood maltreatment and creativity. This 
      study intended to explore the serial multiple mediation model in which 
      undergraduates' cognitive flexibility and self-efficacy were proposed to mediate 
      the potential influence of childhood maltreatment on their creativity. 
      Participants were 1069 undergraduates (573 males and 496 females, mean age was 
      20.57 +/- 1.24 years ranging from 17 to 24) from a university in Shandong Province, 
      China. Participants were required to complete an internet survey including the 
      Short Form of Childhood Trauma Questionnaire (CTQ-SF), General Self-Efficacy 
      Scale (GSES), Cognitive Flexibility Inventory (CFI), and Williams Creativity 
      Aptitude Test (WCAT). Serial multiple mediation analysis and the bootstrap method 
      were used to investigate the mediation effects of cognitive flexibility and 
      self-efficacy. The results showed that childhood maltreatment indirectly 
      influenced undergraduates' creativity through three indirect paths: childhood 
      maltreatment-->cognitive flexibility-->creativity, childhood 
      maltreatment-->self-efficacy-->creativity, and childhood maltreatment-->cognitive 
      flexibility-->self-efficacy-->creativity. The ratios of the total indirect effects 
      and branch-indirect effects to the total effects were 92.73%, 34.61%, 35.68%, and 
      22.44%, respectively. These results indicated that cognitive flexibility and 
      self-efficacy could completely mediate the potential impact of childhood 
      maltreatment on individuals creativity.
FAU - Li, Wenfu
AU  - Li W
AD  - School of Mental Health, Jining Medical University, Jining 272067, China.
FAU - Zhang, Shuai
AU  - Zhang S
AD  - School of Mental Health, Jining Medical University, Jining 272067, China.
FAU - Lin, Hao
AU  - Lin H
AD  - College of Chinese and Western Medicine, Jining Medical University, Jining 
      272067, China.
FAU - Zhang, Keke
AU  - Zhang K
AD  - School of Mental Health, Jining Medical University, Jining 272067, China.
FAU - Zhang, Xiaolong
AU  - Zhang X
AD  - School of Mental Health, Jining Medical University, Jining 272067, China.
FAU - Chen, Jingting
AU  - Chen J
AD  - Labor Union, Jining Medical University, Jining 272067, China.
FAU - Xu, Fangfang
AU  - Xu F
AD  - School of Mental Health, Jining Medical University, Jining 272067, China.
FAU - Liu, Chuanxin
AU  - Liu C
AD  - School of Mental Health, Jining Medical University, Jining 272067, China.
LA  - eng
GR  - ZR2022MC113/Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province/
GR  - 2019RWF003/Project of Shandong Province Higher Educational Youth Innovation 
      Science and Technology Program/
GR  - JYFC2019KJ011/Supporting Fund for Teachers' research of Jining Medical 
      University/
GR  - JYFC2019RW007/Supporting Fund for Teachers' research of Jining Medical 
      University/
GR  - cx2021142/College Students Innovation and Entrepreneurship Training Program/
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20230324
PL  - Switzerland
TA  - J Intell
JT  - Journal of Intelligence
JID - 101635592
PMC - PMC10147018
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - childhood maltreatment
OT  - cognitive flexibility
OT  - college students
OT  - creativity
OT  - self-efficacy
COIS- The authors declare no conflict of interest.
EDAT- 2023/04/27 12:42
MHDA- 2023/04/27 12:43
PMCR- 2023/03/24
CRDT- 2023/04/27 10:43
PHST- 2022/12/18 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2023/03/07 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2023/03/21 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2023/04/27 12:43 [medline]
PHST- 2023/04/27 12:42 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/04/27 10:43 [entrez]
PHST- 2023/03/24 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - jintelligence11040058 [pii]
AID - jintelligence-11-00058 [pii]
AID - 10.3390/jintelligence11040058 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - J Intell. 2023 Mar 24;11(4):58. doi: 10.3390/jintelligence11040058.