Dr. Flemmings Ngwira

Dr. Flemmings Ngwira

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Language & Communication Studies

10 publications

Flemmings Ngwira is a Senior Lecturer at Malawi University of Business and Applied Sciences (MUBAS) and the current Head of the Academic Department; Language and Communication. He holds a PhD in Applied Psychology (Health Communication) and besides teaching and doing consultancies, he supervises and...

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The effect of general creative personality and freedom of task choice on adolescents' social creativity

Journal Article
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Author
Chuanhua Gu
Co-authors
Bi Ying Hu, Zhi Jing, Dr. Flemmings Ngwira
Abstract
This study investigated the effect of general creative personality and freedom of task choice on the social creativity of adolescents. The results indicated, first, that senior high school students scored higher than junior high school students. Second, girls scored higher than boys on originality, fluency, flexibility, appropriateness, and utility with regard to creative social problem-solving. Third, freedom of task choice and its interaction with creative personality had significant effects on the originality, appropriateness, utility, flexibility, and fluency of social creativity. Adolescents who completed the task voluntarily scored higher on these dimensions than adolescents who completed it reluctantly and, among the voluntary adolescents, those with high and medium creative personality scored higher than those with low creative personality, whereas no such difference was found among the reluctant adolescents. Adolescents were more likely to show social creativity, and their general creative personality was more likely to be brought into effect under the freedom of task choice condition.
Year of Publication
2016
Journal Name
The Journal of Creative Behavior
Volume
50
Issue
2
Page Numbers
132-149
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