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Title SUPPORTIVE PARENTING, OPENNESS TO EXPERIENCE, AND CREATIVITY ORIENTATIONS AMONG UNIVERSITY STUDENTS

Author(s) Maryam Khalid

Abstract The current study explored the relationship among supportive parenting, openness to experience, and creative orientation in university students. The objectives of the current study were to explore the differences on creative orientation with respect to different faculty, age, and gender in university students, address the construct validity of the creative orientation scale in the local context, and address the conceptual differences between creativity and creative orientation. It was hypothesized that there is a positive relationship between supportive parenting and creative-approach orientation, there is a negative relationship between supportive parenting and creative-averse orientation, there is a positive relationship between openness to experience and creative-approach orientation, there is a negative relationship between openness to experience and creative-averse orientation, and there might be gender differences on creative orientation among university students. Through the cross-sectional correlational research method, a sample of (N = 300) university students (n = 76 male, n = 224 female) with an age range of 18-30 years (M = 22.17, SD = 2.31) were recruited by using the non-probability convenient sampling technique. Data was collected from the potential participants from different universities of Pakistan. Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA), Pearson correlational analysis, multiple regression analysis, independent sample t-tests, and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) were applied through SPSS version 27 to generate the results that supported the overall internal consistency of the Creative Orientation Scale's factor structure, and revealed significant negative correlation between supportive parenting and creative-averse orientation, strong significant positive correlation between openness to experience and creative-approach orientation, and significant negative correlation between openness to experience and creative-averse orientation, father support significantly predicted creative-averse orientation in the negative direction, openness to experience significantly predicted creative-averse orientation in the negative direction, and significantly predicted creative-approach orientation in the positive direction, no significant gender differences on creative orientation, no significant disciplinary differences on creative orientation, and significant mean differences among age groups on creative-averse orientation. These indigenous findings have significant implications for the university students, parents, policy makers in the universities, researchers, counselors, educational psychologists, and further research endeavors.

Type Thesis/Dissertation MS

Faculty Social Sciences

Department Psychology

Language English

Publication Date 2025-12-05

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