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Oztop, P. and Gummerum, Michaela (2020) Group creativity in children and adolescents. Cognitive Development, 56 . 100923. doi:10.1016/j.cogdev.2020.100923 ISSN 0885-2014.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cogdev.2020.100923
Abstract
In the landscape of continuous change and technological innovations, educational settings need constant reforms to support children acquiring the skills that are necessary for adaptation to the future. In this research we investigated one of those skills, namely the collaborative creativity of children and adolescents. The first aim of this study was to understand whether group creativity progressed from childhood to adolescence. The second aim was to assess potential mechanisms behind developmental differences in collaborative creativity. We particularly explored the role of intersubjectivity, social perspective coordination, as well as intrinsic motivation in group creativity. Fourty-eight students from primary school years 5 and 6 and Fourty-five students from secondary school years 9 and 10 formed three person groups. Group members collaboratively wrote stories that were rated by three independent subject teachers. Stories written by secondary school students were rated as more creative compared to stories of primary school students. Social perspective coordination was found as a positive predictor of group creativity. Moreover, social perspective coordination mediated the positive relation between age and group creativity. Intersubjectivity variables were not significantly related with creativity of groups. Finally, there was a weak negative association between group creativity and intrinsic task motivation. These results indicate that similar to individual creativity group creativity also progressed with development and one explanatory mechanism was the advancement in social perspective coordination.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology H Social Sciences > HM Sociology L Education > LB Theory and practice of education |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Psychology | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Creative thinking in children , Creative thinking , Small groups -- Psychological aspects , Creative ability in children, Creative ability, Social groups -- Psychological aspects, Group problem solving, Group decision making | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Cognitive Development | ||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0885-2014 | ||||||||
Official Date: | October 2020 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 56 | ||||||||
Article Number: | 100923 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.cogdev.2020.100923 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Restricted or Subscription Access | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 3 August 2020 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 27 November 2022 | ||||||||
Grant number: | Marie Curie Initial Training Network FP7-PEOPLE-2013-ITN | ||||||||
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