What is creative in childhood writing? Computationally measured linguistic characteristics explain much of the variance in subjective human-rated creativity scores

IF 9 1区心理学 Q1 PSYCHOLOGY, EDUCATIONAL Learning and Individual Differences Pub Date : 2025-02-01 DOI:10.1016/j.lindif.2025.102626

Birsu Kandemirci , Roger E. Beaty , Dan Johnson , Bonamy R. Oliver , Yulia Kovas , Teemu Toivainen

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The present study investigated the extent to which linguistic features of children's stories (analysed using automated techniques), predicted human-rated Creative Expressiveness and Logic scores (both assessed with the Consensual Assessment Technique). A sample of 160 children (Mage = 8.99 years, SD = 0.3) wrote stories based on three pictures. Eleven linguistic characteristics were measured: Length, Grammar, Originality, Controlled Lexical Diversity, Uncontrolled Lexical Diversity, Divergent Semantic Integration (DSI), Referential Cohesion, Narrativity, Syntactic Simplicity, Word Concreteness and Deep Cohesion. The results showed that 51 % of the variance in Creative Expressiveness was explained by Length, DSI, Originality, Grammar, and Controlled Lexical Diversity (sr² = 0.01 to 0.14). In comparison, 28 % of the variance in Logic scores was accounted for by DSI, Grammar, Controlled Lexical Diversity, Syntactic Simplicity, and Narrativity (sr² = 0.01 to 0.06). These findings offer insights for educational practices by identifying the linguistic characteristics relevant to children's creative writing as opposed to logical narration.

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什么是儿童写作的创造性？计算测量的语言特点可以解释人类主观评定的创造力分数的大部分差异

目前的研究调查了儿童故事的语言特征（使用自动化技术分析）在多大程度上预测了人类评定的创造性表达和逻辑分数（两者都使用共识评估技术进行评估）。160名儿童（年龄= 8.99岁，SD = 0.3）根据三幅图片写故事。测量了11个语言特征：长度、语法、独创性、受控词汇多样性、非受控词汇多样性、发散语义整合（DSI）、指称衔接、叙事性、句法简单性、词的具体性和深度衔接。结果表明，长度、DSI、原创性、语法和控制词汇多样性对创造性表达的变异有51%的影响（sr2 = 0.01 ~ 0.14）。相比之下，逻辑得分的28%的差异是由DSI、语法、受控词汇多样性、句法简单性和叙事性造成的（sr2 = 0.01至0.06）。这些发现通过识别与儿童创造性写作相关的语言特征而不是逻辑叙述，为教育实践提供了见解。

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Learning and Individual Differences PSYCHOLOGY, EDUCATIONAL-

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期刊介绍： Learning and Individual Differences is a research journal devoted to publishing articles of individual differences as they relate to learning within an educational context. The Journal focuses on original empirical studies of high theoretical and methodological rigor that that make a substantial scientific contribution. Learning and Individual Differences publishes original research. Manuscripts should be no longer than 7500 words of primary text (not including tables, figures, references).