Social and Cultural Capital in Creativity

A great part of creative activities arises from the interactions between individuals and their socio-cultural environments. The aim of this article is to explore the relationship between EFL learners’ creativity and their social and cultural capital. To this end, the Social and Cultural Capital Questionnaire (SCCQ) and the Arjmand Creativity Questionnaire (ACQ) were administered to a sample of 320 undergraduate students majoring in English language so that the researchers could examine the best predictors of creativity in terms of five factors of the SCCQ, namely, social competence, social solidarity, literacy, cultural competence, and extraversion. Results from Pearson product-moment correlation showed highly significant correlations between all five factors of SCCQ and learners’ creativity. Moreover, results from the regression analysis revealed that a combination of cultural competence and social solidarity was the best predictor of creativity by explaining 25% of the variances in EFL learners’ creativity scores. The implications of the study are discussed.