Parental Autonomy Support, Teachers’ Caring Behavior and Creativity

——Investigating the Mediating Role of Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction

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10.2991/978-2-38476-382-5_42How to use a DOI?

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Parental Autonomy Support; Teachers’ Caring Behaviors; Creativity; Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction; Self-determination Theory

Abstract

Guided by self-determination theory, parents and teachers are essential environmental factors for fostering creativity of college students. However, the extant literature on social influence factors of creativity commonly emphasized on the generalized sense of personal relationships. This study investigated specific facets about how parental autonomy support and teachers’ caring behaviors could predict creativity, as well as understanding the role of basic psychological needs satisfaction in these links. Through measuring the answers of the questionnaires among 358 Chinese college students with different educational levels and family background, this study plotted a model diagram to visually report the links among the variables and employed correlation and path analyses with a bootstrapping approach to examine the mediation effect. The results revealed that parental autonomy support and teachers’ caring behaviors were positively correlated with student creativity. Furthermore, basic psychological needs satisfaction mediated the relationships of parental autonomy support, teachers’ caring behaviors, and creativity. The findings provided both theoretical and practical implications that parents and teachers can effectively nurture creativity by conveying warm and supportive responses to students’ basic psychological needs.

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Qin Zhang
PY  - 2025
DA  - 2025/03/28
TI  - Parental Autonomy Support, Teachers’ Caring Behavior and Creativity
BT  - Proceedings of the 2024 International Conference on Social Sciences and Educational Development (ICOSSED 2024)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 415
EP  - 429
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/978-2-38476-382-5_42
DO  - 10.2991/978-2-38476-382-5_42
ID  - Zhang2025
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