Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.15516/cje.v23i0.4395
Determinants of Artistic Interests in Adolescence: The Importance of Personal and Contextual Factors
Iva Šverko
orcid.org/0000-0003-2542-7468
; Ivo Pilar Institute of Social Sciences Marulićev trg 19, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The need for artistic creativity is inherent to all children, but as they grow up, the
meaning of artistic expression and interest in artistic creativity changes. Entering
adolescence, artistic expression for children ceases to be a part of play and begins to
represent child’s personality and enduring interests, which is why only some children
remain interested in artistic creativity and art. In this paper, we discuss the important
determinants of artistic interests in adolescence on a sample of 981 last grade students
(67.2 % girls, mean age 18 years). The results indicated that the total of 40% of
variance of artistic interests is explained by personality traits and personal values,
while the importance of family contextual variables was negligible. Among personal
factors, the most prominent role of openness to experience was observed, followed
by self-actualization values and extraversion, and to some extent by emotionality
and utilitarian values. People with greater artistic interest are more open to new
experiences, less extraverted, slightly more emotional, and they also place greater
importance on self-actualizing values and somewhat lower importance on utilitarian
(materialistic) values. Further, the importance of family intellectual-cultural climate
for development of artistic interests in adolescence is very weak, and is likely indirect,
through personality traits.
Keywords
adolescence; artistic interests; determinants; family; personality traits; values
Hrčak ID:
272156
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Publication date:
28.12.2021.
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