Zou Hong
2009
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Quality indicators
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Chinese Journal of Special Education
Abstract
This study makes a survey on the developmental characteristics and correlation between emotional intelligence and creativity tendency of secondary school students through questionnaires. The subjects are 717 students from 2 key middle schools and 2 general ones. The results show: (1) There is a gender difference of emotional intelligence among students,and girls in perceiving,understanding and managing emotions gain higher scores than boys;There is an interaction effect between grade and school in perceiving,understanding and managing emotions;(2) There is an interaction effect in self-confidence dimension of creativity tendency between sex and grade;(3) Emotional intelligence significantly correlate with creativity tendency. Further regression analysis shows that emotional perception,emotional understanding and emotional use positively predict creativity tendency,while emotional management is a significant negative predictor of creativity tendency. The predictive power of emotional intelligence to creativity tendency is 26%,and emotional perception and emotional management have the greatest explanatory power to creativity tendency.