Abstract: Adolescence is a significant period for creativity development. Family environment was the most important factor to cultivate individuals’ creativity. The first goal of the current study was to demonstrate the characteristics of family innovation environment in China; otherwise, our second goal was to explore the underlying mechanism through which the family innovation environment was associated with adolescents’ everyday creative behaviors. We conducted a semi-structured interview with 17 high creative students and a pretest on 467 students to identify the content of the family innovation environment at the beginning of our study; then in order to investigate the relationship between family innovation environment and adolescents’ creative behavior, we recruited 1117 adolescents to administer the following questionnaires: Adolescents’ Family Innovation Questionnaires, Williams Prefer Measurement Forms(WPMF), Middle School Students’ Everyday Creative Behavior Questionnaires and Peer Nomination of Everyday Creative Behavior. K-Means Cluster and structural equation modeling statistical method were adopted for data analysis. The results showed that: (1) Family innovation environment was constituted with 4 factors, which specifically named family emotional atmosphere, parental creative behavior, parental education philosophy and autonomy permitted. (2) Three types of family innovation environment was identified in the present sample: general, inhibitory and innovative. Students from innovative family scored significantly higher than other two types on everyday creative behavior. (3) Significant positive correlations were found among family innovation environment, creative personality, and everyday creative behavior by both self-report and peer nomination. (4) Creative personality completely mediated the relationship between family innovation environment and peer nomination of creativity, and partial mediated the relationship between family innovation environment and self-reported everyday creative behavior. Therefore, we concluded that family emotional atmosphere, parental creative behavior, education philosophy and autonomy permitted were the crucial elements of family innovation environment. More importantly, creative personality has a significant mediating effect on family innovation environment and everyday creative behavior. These results could contribute the creativity cultivation practice for youths. However, the limitations of the current study could not be ignored. First, participants in our study were recruited from model middle school in Beijing, which would restrict the explanation range of our results; Second, no control group was involved in the semi-structure interview to explore the contents of the family innovation environment. These issues should be taken good care of in the future studies.

Key words: Family innovation environment, creative personality, creative behavior, Peer Nomination, high school students

摘要： 以1117名中学生为被试，采用问卷法考察家庭创新环境的特点及其对日常创造性行为的影响机制。结果发现：（1）家庭创新环境体现在家庭情感氛围、父母创造性行为、父母教育理念和自主准予，可分为抑制型（17.3%）、一般型（41.9%）和创新型（40.8%），创新型在日常创造性行为上得分显著高于抑制型；（2）家庭创新环境与创造性人格、日常创造性行为以及同伴提名得分相关显著；（3）创造性人格在家庭创新环境和同伴提名之间起完全中介作用，在家庭创新环境和日常创造性行为之间起部分中介作用。

关键词: 家庭创新环境, 创造性人格, 日常创造性行为, 同伴提名, 中学生