ORIGINAL RESEARCH article
Front. Psychol.
Sec. Educational Psychology
This article is part of the Research TopicThe Joy of Learning: Reclaiming Engagement, Curiosity, and Meaning in EducationView all 6 articles
Strive for Excellence: Unboxing the Antecedents of Art Design Students' Creativity in the Learning Process in China
Provisionally accepted
- 1Heze University, Heze, China
- 2Taylor's University, Subang Jaya, Malaysia
- 3Universiti Teknologi MARA, Shah Alam, Malaysia
- 4University of Tabuk, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia
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The study aims to examine how personality characteristics, disciplinary values, self-efficacy, emotional management, and learning style affect student creativity during the learning process. Later, determine the mediating role of reflective practice and the moderating role of the learning environment. A total of 402 final-year Art Design undergraduates from Shandong province in mainland China responded to the questions. The findings indicate that students' personality characteristics, self-efficacy, disciplinary values, and emotional management significantly affect reflective practice. Moreover, reflective practice substantially played a role in mediation. Surprisingly, learning style does not significantly affect reflective practice or creativity during learning. The learning environment was actively moderated. Finally, reflective practice and student creativity in the learning process are significantly related. This study elucidated the learning processes of Chinese Art Design students' creativity. It is anticipated to offer a novel foundation and viewpoint for improving Art Design education.
Keywords: and creativity in the learning process, disciplinary value, emotional management, Learning environment, learning style, Personality characteristics, reflective practice, self-efficacy
Received: 10 Jan 2026; Accepted: 05 Feb 2026.
Copyright: © 2026 Jianhao, Ng, Hin, Mohamed and Hossain. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence: Md Sazzad Hossain
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