Creativity, music, and quality of later life: A systematic review

Creech, Andrea; Larouche, Keven; Generale, Mariane; Fortier, David

doi:10.1177/0305735620948114

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“…Creativity contributes greatly toward good mental health (Tang et al, 2021;Zhai et al, 2021). The positive relationship between creativity and mental health, as revealed through previous studies (Blau and Benolol, 2016;Lin and Foley-Nicpon, 2019;Creech et al, 2020;Vilarinho-Pereira et al, 2021), is attributed to the flexible, independent, and self-accepting characteristics of human behavior (MacKinnon, 1965), as well as the positive influence of creativity, during bouts of loneliness (Michinov and Michinov, 2021). In this regard, Zhai et al (2021) conducted a study on the association between emotional creativity and mental health, involving participants from different parts of China.…”

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Developmental assets, creativity, thriving, and mental health among Malaysian emerging adults

Kadir

Rusyda

2022

Front. Psychol.

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This study was part of a larger cross-national research project at the Norway’s University of Bergen, which involved participants from over 30 countries. This undertaking delves into developmental assets, creativity, and thriving, and the part they play in determining mental health. Thus, this study examined the developmental assets (internal assets: support, empowerment, boundaries, and expectations and creative use of time; external assets: commitment to learning, positive identity, positive values, and social competencies), creativity, thriving, and their importance to mental health in a sample of Malaysian emerging adults. This study was based on a sample of 394 undergraduate students, comprising 264 females and 130 males, ranging between the ages of 18 and 26 years (M = 21.5). Two subscales of the Reisman diagnostic creativity assessment (RDCA) were used to measure creativity (originality and fluency). Meanwhile, thriving indicators of Search Institute were used to measure thriving while the short form of the mental health continuum (MHC-SF) for adolescents was used to measure mental health. An online Google form was used to collect data from university students enrolled in both public and private universities. The correlation analysis results revealed that all the variables were positively correlated to each other and that the relationship between development assets, creativity, thriving, and mental health ranged from weak to moderate. Multiple regression (stepwise) analysis produced four models that indicated that positive identity, support, creativity, and thriving have a significant influence on mental health among emerging adults. Further, analyses using the PROCESS procedure demonstrated significant indirect effects of positive identity and support on mental health through its effects on creativity and thriving. As such, it is our recommendation that mental health practitioners tailor their treatment approach to include positive identity, support, creativity, and thriving in their sessions with Malaysian emerging adults.

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Developmental assets, creativity, thriving, and mental health among Malaysian emerging adults

Kadir

Rusyda

2022

Front. Psychol.

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“…In a study on self-efficacy and quality of work life with creativity, Gholamhossein and Ahmad (2018) asserted that creativity is predicted by the quality of work life, social fitness and working life. Creech et al (2020) conducted a systematic review and advocated the link between creativity and quality of life. With this background, the following hypothesis is formulated: H6.…”

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Smart working in the travel agencies and employees’ quality of life

Girish

Lee²,

Lee³

2022

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Purpose This paper aims to understand the impact of smart working on employees’ quality of life. The service-dominant logic indicates that key actors, including employees, are resource integrators. This empirical study contributes to the current knowledge of transformative service by expounding on smart working practices and their relationship with self-efficacy and, ultimately, quality of life of employees. Design/methodology/approach This study contends that smart working enhances employees’ self-efficacy. The current research uses conservation of resources (COR) theory as a basis in hypothesizing that self-efficacy serves as a key resource, which can stimulate workplace creativity, job satisfaction and quality of life. An onsite survey is conducted among employees who have been involved in smart working in the travel agency context. Findings Smart working has a positive effect on self-efficacy, which positively influences workplace creativity, job satisfaction and quality of life. Workplace creativity enhances job satisfaction but does not influence quality of life. Job satisfaction boosts quality of life, which is important to tourism services and their employees amid various crises. Research limitations/implications Consistent with COR theory, the immediate recommendation to managers is to invest in smart working, which can lead to employees’ creativity, job satisfaction and quality of life. Originality/value To the best of the authors’ knowledge, this empirical study is the first to assess the viability of smart working in the travel agency context. Smart working offers positive outcomes, such as convenience for employees to work independently, improving workplace creativity, job satisfaction and quality of life. Travel agencies are mainly categorized as small and medium enterprises (SMEs). In the future, SMEs may also introduce smart working that can eventually become their competitive advantage to retain talented employees.

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“…An exception to this is research which has studied song writing activities. Such studies have reported a range of positive findings relating to wellbeing (Creech et al, 2020). Baker and Ballantyne (2013) found that group song writing among older adult retirees not only promoted happiness, meaningfulness, and engagement but was perceived to enhance their creativity more broadly.…”

Section: Preprint Creativity In Later Lifementioning

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The Power of Music: an exploration of the evidence [PREPRINT]

Hallam¹,

Himonides²

2021

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This OSF project contains the source and supplementary materials for the book "The Power of Music: an exploration of the evidence" (under review). This book was written to provide an update to The power of music: A research synthesis of the impact of actively making music on the intellectual, social and personal development of children and young people. As the evidence was collated, it became clear that much more research had been undertaken since the original book was produced and that that research was focused on a much wider age range with particular expansion in work with older age groups. It was therefore decided to expand the book to include research across the lifespan covering a wider range of issues, particularly those relating to health and wellbeing as these have become more important in the research agenda in recent years. The title referring to an exploration of the research was selected to make it possible to take account of all kinds of research from large scale population studies to single case studies, correlation studies, experiments and evaluations of interventions with a focus on both listening to and actively making and creating music. Some interventions that have several different outcomes are mentioned in more than one chapter. As there has been much controversy recently as to whether music can have any impact, particularly on cognition, it was felt important to include examples of individual research projects for the reader to be able to draw their own conclusions about the impact of music rather than relying on a summary, although an overview is provided at the end of each chapter. This means that the book is not always an easy read. Some of the research is extremely complex and takes time to understand. It is hoped that despite this it will enable the reader to make an informed decision about the power of music in a range of areas across the lifespan.

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Creativity, music, and quality of later life: A systematic review

Cited by 21 publications

References 55 publications

Developmental assets, creativity, thriving, and mental health among Malaysian emerging adults

Developmental assets, creativity, thriving, and mental health among Malaysian emerging adults

Smart working in the travel agencies and employees’ quality of life

The Power of Music: an exploration of the evidence [PREPRINT]

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