摘要：Path analysis was used to determine variables influencing the creativity of elementary school children. Participants were 213 dyads of 6th-grade children and their parents. The children and their parents responded to questionnaires on children`s temperament,depression,self-esteem,self-efficacy,and problem-solving style. Children completed the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking. Child`s problem-solving style and self-efficacy directly affected child`s creativity. Child`s temperament,depression,self-esteem,self-efficacy,and problem-solving indirectly affected creativity such that child`s temperament affected depression,which affected child`s self-esteem. Then,child`s self-esteem affected child`s problem-solving which,in turn,affected child`s self-efficacy that directly predicted child`s creativity. Both problem-solving and self-efficacy were mediators of child`s creativity.
