AUTHOR=Wu Yushen , Wu Yubin , Chong Daohan , Zhang Wen TITLE=The Promotion of Creativity of Vocational College Students: The Role of Parent-Child Relationship, Emotional Intelligence, and Grit JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology VOLUME=Volume 12 - 2021 YEAR=2021 URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.765444 DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2021.765444 ISSN=1664-1078 ABSTRACT=Abstract: Objective: To examine whether emotional intelligence played a mediation role in the association between parent-child relationship and vocational college student's creativity, and whether grit moderated this mediating process. Methods: 663 vocational college students participated in this study and completed four questionnaires at three time points, which included measures of parent-child relationship, creativity, emotional intelligence and grit. Results: (1) emotional intelligence mediated the relationship between parent-child relationship and vocational college student's creativity; (2) grit moderated the mediating role of emotional intelligence between parent-child relationship and vocational college student's creativity. Conclusion: parent-child relationship had both direct effects on vocational college student's creativity and indirect effects through emotional intelligence. Grit moderates the effect of emotional intelligence on vocational college student’s creativity.