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Behavior profiles of creativity in students of education studies

This study explores a) the prevalence of creative behaviors in students of education studies (i.e., two groups: 1. future pre-K, and 2. future basic school teachers in grades 1—6/8), b) the predictive relevance of self-assessments of personality traits, abilities, vocational interests, and eight key-competences for lifelong learning for the domains and micro-domains of thematically corresponding creative behavior, and c) the participants' creative behavior profile group differences. This study, therefore, addresses the focal criterion problem in creativity research and education for creativity by exploring creative behavior frequency, structure, and its correlations with personality dimensions in groups of students of education studies (future educators). The total of 103 study participants included students of university teacher studies (n = 34) and students of preschool education studies (full-time studies, n = 30 ; part-time studies, n = 39), all in their third year of study, all women, aged 20 to 42, all from one city in the Republic of Croatia. The self-report instruments used in this study included: a) the Big Five personality questionnaire (Croatian Translation of the 50-Item lexical IPIP Big-Five factor markers), b) the UPI-48 scale based on RIASEC taxonomy of interests, the c) the author's Inventory of creative behaviors (ICB-330 items), and d) demographic and sorting questions including self-reports on key competences for lifelong learning. The results point to a) the overall art-biased prevalence of creative behaviors, b) the predictive validity of personality measures for domain-specific creative behaviors, and c) the participant group differences in creative behavior profiles. The findings are discussed within the educational context (i.e., competence acquisition and educators' professional development), and the role of educators in modeling, identifying, and fostering creativity in students in early and basic education.

creativity ; creative behavior ; creative activity ; fostering creativity

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