AUTHOR=Cui Xingnan , Zhang Xiang , Zhang Hua 

TITLE=The impact of parenting style on malevolent creativity based on Chinese university students: a latent profile analysis

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=15

YEAR=2024

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1363778

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1363778

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=<sec><title>Introduction</title><p>This study investigated the association between parenting styles and malevolent creativity.</p></sec><sec><title>Methods</title><p>It used latent profile analysis to compare the differences in malevolent creativity between different combinations of parenting styles with an online sample (<italic>N</italic> = 620).</p></sec><sec><title>Results</title><p>The results of the study suggest that a three-profile solution best fits the data, and the three profiles were labelled <italic>positive open parenting</italic>, <italic>undifferentiated parenting</italic> and <italic>negative limited parenting</italic>. Subsequent analyses revealed that there were significant differences in malevolent creativity performance among the three parenting styles, with participants in the <italic>positive open parenting</italic> having more malevolent creativity. Those with <italic>undifferentiated parenting</italic> had the lowest scores.</p></sec><sec><title>Discussion</title><p>The findings provide theoretical guidance for parenting strategies. Future intervention studies on malevolent creativity should also consider the potential impact of parenting style to obtain better results.</p></sec>