Abstract

PEREIRA-GUIZZO, Camila de Sousa; GOMES, Marcus Vinicius Mendes; NOGUEIRA, Tarso Barretto Rodrigues  and  MURTA, Sheila Giardini. Predictors of Barriers to Creativity of Engineering Students. Estud. pesqui. psicol. [online]. 2021, vol.21, n.3, pp. 1026-1045. ISSN 1808-4281.  http://dx.doi.org/10.12957/epp.2021.62708.

In engineering education, creativity is valued for being related to innovation, but there are challenges to be faced in order to encourage it in the undergraduate context. Seeking to offer conditions for the development of creativity in higher education, the literature investigates the existence of personal and environmental factors that can facilitate or inhibit the creative expression. The objective was to identify predictors of barriers to creativity in engineering students, considering personal and academic variables. Three hundred and seventy-four students participated, responding to the Questionnaire for Sample Characterization and Inventory of Barriers to Personal Creativity. Multiple logistic regression was used for data processing. The response variable (whether or not they agree with factors that reflect barriers to personal creativity) was explained taking into account predictor variables (age, gender, type of course, period of course and job). The main results suggest variables like female gender and first year of the course are predictors for the Inhibition/Shyness barrier; and first and second years of the course are predictors for the Social Repression barrier. These results are important to expand personal resources and strengthen an institutional culture focused on the appreciation and development of creativity.

Keywords : creativity; higher education; engineering education.

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