The Impact of Values, Gender and Education on Creative Behaviour in Different Domains in Russian Regions

23 Pages Posted: 12 Mar 2015

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Nadezhda Lebedeva

National Research University Higher School of Economics

Ekaterina Bushina

National Research University Higher School of Economics

Date Written: March 12, 2015

Abstract

This paper presents results of the research into different types of creative behaviour and their predictors in the Central and North-Caucasus federal districts of Russia (N=2046). The revised PVQ-R questionnaire of Schwartz for values measurement and the modified Creative Behaviour Inventory (CBI) of Dollinger for creative behaviour measurement were used. The model with five different domains of creative behaviour: visual art, literature, craft, performance, organizational creativity and generalized creativity was confirmed in a simultaneous CFA in both regions. This model with values, gender and level of education as predictors was tested using structural equation modelling with AMOS 19.0. Values, education and gender influence creative behaviour in different domains. The value of Openness to Change positively, and the value of Conservation negatively influence creative behaviour in different domains in both the regions. The impacts of gender and education on creativity have domain and regional specifics: craft is a ‘female’ domain of creativity whereas organizational creativity is a ‘male’ one; higher education promotes organizational and visual creativity in both regions and literature creativity in the North Caucasus.

Keywords: creativity, domains of creativity, values, gender, education

JEL Classification: Z

Suggested Citation

Lebedeva, Nadezhda and Bushina, Ekaterina, The Impact of Values, Gender and Education on Creative Behaviour in Different Domains in Russian Regions (March 12, 2015). Higher School of Economics Research Paper No. WP BRP 34/PSY/2015 , Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=2577184 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.2577184

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Ekaterina Bushina

National Research University Higher School of Economics ( email )

Myasnitskaya street, 20
Moscow, Moscow 119017
Russia

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