The Impact Of College Students' Self-confidence On Creative Thinking

The social construction and the development of knowledge economy in China need a large number of high-level innovative talents,and creative thinking is the basic quality that innovative talents must possess and the indispensable thinking elements of the society.As the main force of new ideas,the development of creative thinking of college students has attracted much attention.The existing research shows that the development of creative thinking ability of college students is slow and needs to be improved.In the study of the influence of creative personality,self-confidence has been proved by most researchers as an important factor,and whether self-confidence can stimulate and cultivate the creative thinking of college students is worth in-depth study.In the past,there were few researches on the cultivation of self-confidence in the study of creative thinking.Self-confidence is a kind of rational emotion,which refers to an individual's certain emotion about his studying ability.It can be divided into trait self-confidence and state self-confidence.Trait self-confidence is a relatively stable and implicit emotion.For example,some students are always full of self-confidence in their study,while state self-confidence is a dynamic and immediate emotional experience.If some students successfully complete a certain learning task,they will gain self-confidence as emotional feeling in this study.The students with trait self-confidence are easy to get the experience of emotional self-confidence in specific situations,while the students who often get the experience of self-confidence in learning are easy to form trait self-confidence eventually.Trait self-confidence and state self-confidence are interrelated.This study explores the influence of trait self-confidence and state self-confidence on College Students' creative thinking from two perspectives of self-confidence.It not only reveals the individual differences in creative thinking of college students with different levels of self-confidence,but also goes deep into state self-confidence,reveals its influence on College Students' creative thinking,and opens up a new perspective on the relationship between self-confidence and creativity.In addition,the previous research conclusions about self-confidence and creative thinking are not the same or even contrary,lack of empirical research on EEG.Therefore,this study also uses the method of behavior and ERPs technology to carry out the research,from the level of EEG to verify the results of behavior experiments,in order to further improve the level of objectivity and scientificity of the research.Around the above content,this study includes three experiments:In the first experiment,the subjects with different trait self-confidence levels were selected by using the self-confidence questionnaire of college students.The subjects were measured by multi-purpose task(AUT)and Chinese distance association test(CRAT)to explore whether there were differences in creative thinking of college students with different trait self-confidence levels.In the second experiment,the subjects with low level of trait self-confidence selected from the questionnaire were tested with the materials of creative thinking to explore the influence of induced state self-confidence on College Students' creative thinking from the behavioral level.In the third experiment,based on the second experiment,event-related potentials(ERPs)technology was used to measure the subjects' creative thinking based on the experimental paradigm of CRAT,and the effect of induced state self-confidence on College Students' creative thinking was further verified from the perspective of EEG.The results show that:(1)There are significant differences in creative thinking of college students with different trait confidence levels.The specific performance is that the creative thinking score of the individuals with high trait confidence level is significantly higher than that of the individuals with low trait confidence level.(2)Inducing state self-confidence can stimulate the creative thinking of college students.The specific performance is that the score of creative thinking of the students with induced state self-confidence level is significantly higher than that of the students in the control group.(3)Arousing the state self-confidence of college students can stimulate their creative thinking and get corresponding response on the level of ERPs.Specifically,the amplitude of P200 and LPC in the induced state confidence group was smaller than that in the control group.This research has the enlightenment value which is not only in the psychological theory,but also in the self-confidence and education innovation education of college student.