Structural equation model to analyze children's creativity based on parenting style and school system

Abstract

One of the problems in a social science is to formulate causal effects of immeasurable factors. Structural Equation Model (SEM) is a concept for modeling the unobserved factors using related indicators. In addition, SEM can indicate the relationship between several variables have not had directly measured. Childen‟s creativity, parenting style, and school system cannot be directly measured, some indicators are needed to analyze these variables. Permissive, authoritative, and authoritarian are knowed as indicators of parenting style. School system is measured by school environtment and learning method indicators. Figural and verbal skill measure children‟s creativity theoretically while self assessment is used as comparison. So the purpose of this research is to identifying the factors that may affect the level of children‟s creativity by using SEM. Structural equation model show children‟s creativity affected by school system and parenting style. All of school system indicators have significant influences to children‟s creativity and have positive influence. Parenting styles show only authoritative and authoritarian parenting style are significant, where authoritative parenting style has a positive influence, but on contrast authoritarian parenting style has a negative influence to children‟s creativity. Children‟s creativity reflected by figural and verbal skill while self assessment is an insignificance indicator.