Relations Between Creativity and Internalizing and Externalizing Problem Behaviors in Rural Children
The present study recruited a sample of 339 fourth-grade students from rural public primary schools to examine the association between children's creativity and internalizing and externalizing problem behaviors.After controlling for gender and intelligence,the results showed the following:1)there was a negative correlation between originality and appropriateness;2)both originality and appropriateness significantly negatively predicted internalizing problem behaviors;3)originality significantly negatively predicted externalizing problem behaviors,with a significant interaction effect observed between originality and appropriateness,which indicates that the negative predictive effect of originality on externalizing problem behaviors is only significant at high levels of appropriateness.The results of this study help us understand the relations between children's creativity and problem behaviors in rural settings.
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