A Positive Role of Negative Mood on Creativity: The Opportunity in the Crisis of the COVID-19 Epidemic

Du, Yuhui; Yang, Yating; Wang, Xuewei; Xie, Cong; Liu, Chunyu; Hu, Weiping; Li, Yadan

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2020.600837

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“…Likewise, employees were aware of their upskilling needs; however, the lockdown provided them with the opportunity to nurture themselves by enrolling in online courses and training for their upskilling. Our findings support recent studies in the COVID-19 context (for instance, Beghetto, 2021 ; Du et al, 2021 ; Impey & Formanek, 2021 ; Tønnessen et al, 2021 ).…”

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confidence: 92%

Working from home during COVID-19 and its impact on Indian employees’ stress and creativity

Jaiswal¹,

Arun²

2022

Asian Bus Manage

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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented turmoil necessitating nations to impose lockdowns. Thus, organizations forced employees to work from home (WFH) by leveraging information technology. We explored the impact of WFH on employees during the lockdown. We conducted in-depth interviews of 24 employees across manufacturing and technology-enabled sectors in India and analyzed the data using Gioia’s methodology. Four dimensions emerged from the impact of WFH on employees: role improvisation, stress, isolation, and self-initiated creativity. While some themes were common between the two industrial sectors, other themes varied. For instance, service sector employees reported current work-related stress, whereas manufacturing sector employees reported future-related stress. Interestingly, we discovered sparks of creativity among employees during this period either towards nurturing themselves (technology-enabled sector) or towards solving long-pending organizational issues (manufacturing sector). Most importantly, these creativity sparks were self-initiated. The study is novel as it explores the impact of large-scale WFH enforced during crisis.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 92%

Working from home during COVID-19 and its impact on Indian employees’ stress and creativity

Jaiswal¹,

Arun²

2022

Asian Bus Manage

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“…In a study comparable with ours (general population in France) run during the same period (1st weeks of the 2020 lockdown), Mercier et al (2021) report that lockdown, despite the negative outcomes that came out of it, may have fostered creativity due to uncertainty and solitude. However, the influence of negative mood on cognitive creativity and emotional creativity remains elusive ( Ying et al, 2020 ). Failure in engaging in a creative activity to overcome uncertainty and solitude might explain people’s increase in everyday non-creative activities, thereby leading to potentially addictive behaviors.…”

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confidence: 99%

Gender Differences in the Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Potentially Addictive Behaviors: An Emotion-Mediated Analysis

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We study the impact of the spring 2020 lockdown in France on gender-related potentially addictive behaviors and associated negative emotions. We rely on an online survey we administered 1 week after the beginning of the lockdown, with responses collected within 2 weeks after the beginning of the lockdown (N = 1,087). We focus on potential addictions to non-creative activities as food consumption and smartphone usage (female-related), and videogame play (male-related). We find that women were about 1.6 times more likely than men to losing control of their usual diet and about 2.3 times more likely than men to increase smartphone usage, while no significant gender effect is detected as for increased videogame play. This is since the negative emotions driving the increase of female-related non-creative activities (sadness, discouragement, and nervousness) were themselves female-related, while the negative emotions driving the increase of male-related non-creative activities (boredom, emptiness, and stress) were shared by women too. Our study supports the intuition that the same negative emotion induced by COVID-19 side-effects could lead to different potentially addictive behaviors; this difference is explained by the interplay between different gender’s sensitivities to such emotion and different gender’s preferences for specific non-creative activities.

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“…Personality, traveling experience, and perceived constraint were included in attitude (Izadi et al, 2015;Pretty et al, 2016;Adu et al, 2019). Positive mood and negative mood were included in mood (Du et al, 2021).…”

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The Psychological Determinants toward The Value of Healthy Food among Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Consumers

Nurliza

2022

MGI

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Adults and middle-aged food consumers are the most at risk of type 2 diabetes, and these consumers are varied across demographics. While few and fragmented studies are associated with psychological determinants and healthy food value through food choices. Few consumer roles are involved in research for business success. The psychological determinants toward the value of healthy food for type 2 diabetes consumers used consumer behavior and psychological theories of consumer choices. An associative method with purposive sampling was conducted from 165 adults and middle-aged consumers with type 2 diabetes using Structural Equation Modeling/SEM. The finding showed that the belief, attitude, and mood affected the value of healthy food through food choice, but not psychological distress. The attitude had the greatest effect on food choice and toward the value of healthy food, and the causal of the highest result effect of life experiences. The belief was directly affected food choice and value, and the causal for the highest effect of self-consciousness and health maintenance. The mood negatively affected both food choice and value of healthy food mood and the causal for the smallest effect of health maintenance. The food choice affected the values of healthy food. Life experience was the most direct and indirect effect of food choice and self-consciousness was the most direct effect of the value of healthy food. Some highlights of this study were (i)market segmentation and segmentation variable; (ii)social marketing; (iii)mass media campaign by considering attitude, belief, and mood; and (iv)human capital management strategy with targeted audiences.

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A Positive Role of Negative Mood on Creativity: The Opportunity in the Crisis of the COVID-19 Epidemic

Cited by 25 publications

References 84 publications

Working from home during COVID-19 and its impact on Indian employees’ stress and creativity

Working from home during COVID-19 and its impact on Indian employees’ stress and creativity

Gender Differences in the Impact of COVID-19 Lockdown on Potentially Addictive Behaviors: An Emotion-Mediated Analysis

The Psychological Determinants toward The Value of Healthy Food among Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus Consumers

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