Creativity across the Lifespan

Bornstein, Marc H.

doi:10.1017/9781108755726.006

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“…Creativity is understood to be a multicomponent construct ( Ivancovsky et al, 2021 ) that relies not only on cognitive processes or thinking skills to combine existing knowledge in a novel and useful way but also on the motivation to transform existing knowledge into creative output by employing effective cognitive and thinking strategies ( Bornstein, 2022 ). Motivation has been highlighted as an important engine that drives people to engage in a creative task and to sustain creative endeavors in many creativity theories, such as the componential theory of creativity ( Amabile, 1996/2019 ), the investment theory of creativity ( Sternberg, 2006 ), the systems model of creativity ( Csikszentmihalyi, 2015 ), and the two-tiered componential model of creative thinking ( Runco and Chand, 1995 ).…”

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Positive and negative affect facilitate creativity motivation: Findings on the effects of habitual mood and experimentally induced emotion

2023

Front. Psychol.

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This research involved two investigations that examined the effects of two types of affect (i.e., mood and emotion) on creativity motivation. Study 1 examined the degree to which noninduced habitual mood impacted creativity motivation in the context of a group of junior secondary school students in Hong Kong (n = 588), while Study 2 examined the effect of the experimental manipulation of emotion induction on creativity motivation in the context of a group of undergraduate students in Hong Kong (n = 653). The Chinese version of the Creativity Motivation Scale, the International Positive and Negative Affect Schedule-Short Form, and the Affect Grid were employed to assess creativity motivation, mood, and emotional states, respectively. Interesting findings were obtained. First, both studies consistently demonstrated a facilitating role of positive and negative affect in creativity motivation. Second, both studies consistently showed that the impact of positive affect on creativity motivation was stronger than that of negative affect. While previous affect-creativity research has focused predominantly on the role of affect in the cognitive components of creativity and yielded mixed results, this research adds to the literature by showing that students’ motivation to engage in creativity-related behaviors can be influenced by a broad spectrum of affective experiences (i.e., positive and negative affect, stable and enduring moods, and momentary and mutable emotions). The theoretical and educational implications of the findings are highlighted.

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