| Leadership is the most valuable social resource in present society, and creativity is the huge propulsion for social development and economic transformation. Both of them are considered as the essential and important abilities college students in the21st century are supposed to be equipped with, which not only illustrate the demand for improving their own comprehensive capacity, but also is the result of social management, social construction, transformation of economic development patterns and so on. It is the research on relations between leadership and creativity that can help us understand and explore students’ leadership and creativity more profoundly.On the basis of literature review, this research analyzes how college student’s leadership produces influence on creativity, trying to carry out a systematic research of the concept, characteristics, structural elements of leadership and creativity, and so on. In the light of the exploration of assessment index system and the discussion of their relationship, it puts forward10theoretic assumptions of the impact of college students’leadership on creativity and establishes the influence model based on the data acquired from open questionnaire, individual interview, group interview, etc. The assessment questionnaire of college students’ leadership and creativity is compiled based on the assessment system, and factor analysis is adopted to explore and validate the dimension factors affecting the college students’ leadership and creativity. Through related data collection and the adoption of structural equation model, tools of SPSS and AMOS, the impacts are studied that elements generates like future time observation, positive psychological quality and interpersonal skills on creative personality, creation ability, creative personality, and so on. Furthermore, the proposal is put forward about how to cultivate and improve college students’ creativity in the light of the above research results.This research finally arrives at several main conclusions as follows:(1) it defines college students’ leadership and creativity, analyzes their characteristics and puts forward the structure elements as well as the assessment index system.(2) it carries out the theoretical and empirical research on the relationship between creativity and leadership of college students drawing the conclusion that future time perspective is closely related to the creative personality tendency and the creative behavior ability; positive psychological quality is tightly related to the creative personality tendency as well as creative behavior ability; so is interpersonal ability and creative thinking ability; it is also true of the relationship between creative personality tendency and creative thinking ability together with creative behavior ability. So college students’ creativity can be improved by raising their leadership.(3) It proposes college students’ creativity development system on the level of colleges and universities as well as social industry and enterprises on the basis of the above theoretical and empirical research.To sum up, this study is carried out with the expectation that it can push forward the research on leadership and creativity of college students in China and on cultivating their creativity. And the possible future research demands the further studies of the author and the scholars in this field. |
