ABSTRACT
Creativity at personal and contextual levels maintains a relationship with a number of sociocultural and dispositional factors. In the first place, sociocultural factors underlie the preference for meritorious contributions to society as a criterion for creativity. Moreover, sociocultural factors in terms of regional creativity, college creativity, and college laxity sustain personal creativity, whereas college optimism impedes personal creativity. At a personal level, the dispositions of surgency, gratitude, religious value, and the feeling of self-esteem buttress creativity. By contrast, the dispositions of calmness, laxity, optimism, study value, just world belief, and the feeling of depression obstruct creativity. Moreover, personal creativity is conducive to the dispositions of gratitude and religion value and is detrimental to the dispositions of optimism and study value. Meanwhile, contextual creativity is favorable to the disposition of forgiveness and the feeling of self-esteem and forgiveness, and is unfavorable to the dispositions of optimism, dialecticism, future orientation, and affiliative humor, and the feeling of life satisfaction. Hence, creativity at personal and contextual levels shows both favorable and unfavorable effects and bases with other dispositions and feelings. All the effects and bases are explicable with the analytic-functionalist framework, which applies voluntaristic and deterministic mechanisms at the personal and contextual levels, respectively.
