Study on the Relationship between Children’s Thinking Styles and Their Ways of Raising Questions

This study examines the relationship between self-perceived emotional intelligence (EI) measured by the Emotional Intelligence Scale (EIS) [1] and other personality measures including the five-factor-model. The EI construct has lately been re-defined as the ability to think intelligently about emotions and to use them to enhance intelligent thinking [2]. Two studies provide support that self-reported EI is mainly associated with personality traits (extraversion, agreeableness, conscientiousness, self-perceived creativity), life satisfaction and thinking styles with only a low relation to verbal intelligence. Furthermore, persons higher in the EI dimension “emotional efficacy” produced more creative performances than persons low in this domain. These findings suggest that self-reported EI cannot be considered as a rational form of intelligence so that it does qualify to fit into the framework of personality traits.

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Revisiting the Relationships between Turkish Prospective Teachers' Thinking Styles and Behaviors Fostering Creativity

Advances in Media, Entertainment, and the Arts - Exploring the Benefits of Creativity in Education, Media, and the Arts ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-0504-4.ch007 ◽

2017 ◽

pp. 136-157

Author(s):

Ayhan Dikici

Keyword(s):

Factor Analysis ◽

Trend Analysis ◽

Prospective Teachers ◽

Zero Order ◽

Thinking Styles ◽

Type I ◽

Type Ii ◽

Quadratic Trend ◽

Fostering Creativity ◽

The Relationship

This chapter aims to reexamine the relationship between Turkish prospective teachers' thinking styles and creativity fostering behaviors. In the study, 182 Turkish prospective teachers were participated. The Thinking Styles Inventory (TSI) and Creativity Fostering Teacher Index Scale (CFTIS) were administered to participants. An exploratory factor analysis, zero order and partial correlation, linear and quadratic trend analysis were conducted on the data. The results indicated that Type I thinking styles are a more powerful predictor for creativity fostering behaviors than Type II thinking styles. Prospective teachers' implicit opinions about creativity negatively predicted to CFTIS. Relationship between Type I and Type II thinking styles, and creativity fostering behaviors were positively significant in the results of quadratic trend analysis; however, the relationship between implicit opinions about creativity and creativity fostering behaviors were negatively significant in the analysis. The results obtained from the study were discussed based on previous studies.

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Entrepreneurial passion, orientation and behavior: the moderating role of linear and nonlinear thinking styles

Management Decision ◽

10.1108/md-10-2019-1500 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽

Author(s):

Lamberto Zollo ◽

Riccardo Rialti ◽

Alberto Tron ◽

Cristiano Ciappei

Keyword(s):

Dual Process ◽

Dual Process Theory ◽

Process Theory ◽

Thinking Styles ◽

Thinking Style ◽

Content Type ◽

Entrepreneurial Passion ◽

And Behavior ◽

The Relationship

PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to unpack the underlying mechanisms of entrepreneurs' passion, orientation and behavior by investigating the role of rational and nonrational cognitive elements. Building on dual process theory and sociointuitionism, a conceptual model is proposed in order to explore the relationship between entrepreneurial passion, entrepreneurial orientation (EO) and strategic entrepreneurship behavior (SEB). Specifically, entrepreneurs' linear thinking styles (System 2) and nonlinear thinking styles (System 1) are hypothesized as being significant moderators of such a relationship.Design/methodology/approachCovariance-based structural equation modeling (CB-SEM) is used to empirically validate the proposed conceptual model and test the moderating hypotheses on a sample of 300 entrepreneurs actively involved in European small and medium enterprises (SMEs).FindingsEntrepreneurial passion is shown to be a significant antecedent of EO, which, in turn, strongly influences SEB. Moreover, entrepreneurs' linear thinking style positively moderates the EO-SEB relationship, but not the link between passion and EO. Instead, a nonlinear thinking style positively moderates the relationship between passion and EO, but not the links between EO and SEB.Practical implicationsEntrepreneurs should trust their nonlinear thinking style – related to affective/emotive and intuitive information processing systems – to foster the effect of their entrepreneurial passion on EO. Furthermore, entrepreneurs should rely on a linear thinking style, namely the rational and deliberative cognitive processes, to enhance the impact of their EO on SEB.Originality/valueDual process theory and sociointuitionism are integrated to simultaneously investigate the effect of nonrational and rational cognitive mechanisms on entrepreneurs' orientation and behavior. Moreover, the proposed model is empirically tested on a sample of entrepreneurs working in SMEs located in Europe, which have received little attention from entrepreneurship scholars in comparison to their US counterparts. The authors’ findings suggest important implications for entrepreneurs, policymakers and entrepreneurial universities educators.

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Explaining the Complex Effect of Construal Level on Moral and Political Attitudes

Current Directions in Psychological Science ◽

10.1177/0963721419896362 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 29 (2) ◽

pp. 115-120

Author(s):

Sinan Alper

Keyword(s):

Political Attitudes ◽

Core Values ◽

Construal Level Theory ◽

Thinking Styles ◽

Construal Level ◽

Complex Effect ◽

Construal Levels ◽

The Relationship

The literature on construal-level theory has provided a rich but complex set of findings regarding how abstract and concrete construals affect moral and political attitudes. One set of findings suggests that abstractness sharpens and polarizes moral and political judgments, whereas other findings suggest the opposite. In this article, I first review and explain both sets of findings. Second, I argue that it is possible to reconcile seemingly contradictory results by considering (a) the interpersonal variation in core values, (b) the confounding effects of utilitarian and deontological thinking styles, and (c) potentially different effects of different manipulations of abstractness. I conclude by arguing that consideration of these factors would resolve the complexity in the relationship between construal levels and moral and political attitudes.

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Are Parents' and Children's Thinking Styles Related?

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.2003.93.2.617 ◽

2003 ◽

Vol 93 (2) ◽

pp. 617-630 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Li-Fang Zhang

Keyword(s):

Secondary School ◽

Secondary School Students ◽

Thinking Styles ◽

Personal Factors ◽

School Teachers ◽

School Students ◽

Mainland Chinese ◽

Chinese Secondary School Students ◽

Children’S Thinking

This study extends the investigation of the validity of Sternberg's theory of mental self-government to mainland Chinese secondary school students and their parents. The assumption of a ‘socialization effect’ underlying the theory was subjected to broader investigation. 232 students and their parents responded to a range of demographic questions and to the Thinking Styles Inventory which is based on Sternberg's theory. The two major findings are that (1) Sternberg's theory is valid with both samples, and (2) students' thinking styles are related not only to their personal factors, e.g., sex, grade, and self-rated abilities, but also to their parents' thinking styles. These findings have implications for school teachers and counselors as well as for parents.

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