Factor analytic approach to the structural differentiation of description.

Stimson, Roger C.

doi:10.1037/h0026005

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“…However, the time intervals between testing periods were not reported. Other test-retest reliabilities were reported by Stimson (1968), whose sample of 35 male college students showed test-retest reliabilities of .64 with a 6-month time interval between testing periods. The Friedman Well-Being Scale (Friedman, 1994) was chosen from among a variety of psychological instruments, many of which suggested a pathological orientation that potentially could have been offensive to the participant sample used in this research.…”

Section: Creativity and Well-being Instrumentsmentioning

confidence: 74%

Applied Research Using Alpha/Theta Training for Enhancing Creativity and Well-Being

Boynton¹

2001

Journal of Neurotherapy

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Section: Creativity and Well-being Instrumentsmentioning

confidence: 74%

Applied Research Using Alpha/Theta Training for Enhancing Creativity and Well-Being

Boynton¹

2001

Journal of Neurotherapy

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“…GAU depends on cognitive flexibility (Benedek, Konen, & Neubauer, 2012), so that people can avoid locking into a single category of uses. For example, in the following study, one person heard “button” and generated “as a doorknob for a dollhouse, an eye for a doll, a tiny strainer, to drop behind you to keep your path.” The GAU has exhibited various forms of validity (Gibson, Folley & Park, 2009; Harrington, Block, & Block, 1983; Stimson, 1968), and it has been used to assess the success of creativity training (Renner & Renner, 1971).…”

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confidence: 99%

Give your ideas some legs: The positive effect of walking on creative thinking.

Oppezzo

Schwartz

2014

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cogni

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Four experiments demonstrate that walking boosts creative ideation in real time and shortly after. In Experiment 1, while seated and then when walking on a treadmill, adults completed Guilford's alternate uses (GAU) test of creative divergent thinking and the compound remote associates (CRA) test of convergent thinking. Walking increased 81% of participants' creativity on the GAU, but only increased 23% of participants' scores for the CRA. In Experiment 2, participants completed the GAU when seated and then walking, when walking and then seated, or when seated twice. Again, walking led to higher GAU scores. Moreover, when seated after walking, participants exhibited a residual creative boost. Experiment 3 generalized the prior effects to outdoor walking. Experiment 4 tested the effect of walking on creative analogy generation. Participants sat inside, walked on a treadmill inside, walked outside, or were rolled outside in a wheelchair. Walking outside produced the most novel and highest quality analogies. The effects of outdoor stimulation and walking were separable. Walking opens up the free flow of ideas, and it is a simple and robust solution to the goals of increasing creativity and increasing physical activity.

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“…In response, some of them generated ideas like 'to write on paper,' 'used as whistle by blowing air in the cap,' and 'to use the pen cap as a bookmark.' The task has exhibited various forms of validity (Gibson, Folley, & Park, 2009;Harrington, Block, & Block, 1983;Stimson, 1968) and interrater reliability (Cronbach's alpha ¼ 1.00 [Fluency];.85 [Flexibility]; .71 [originality]; Colzato et al, 2013). GAU has also been used to test the success of creativity training (Renner & Renner, 1971).…”

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Impact of Acute Physical Activity on Children's Divergent and Convergent Thinking: The Mediating Role of a Low Body Mass Index

Bollimbala

James²,

Ganguli

2019

Percept Mot Skills

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While prior studies have examined the positive influence of physical activity (PA) programs on children's creative potential, they have not explored the mediating roles of psychological and physiological variables. In this study, we investigated the impact of a single dance session as a form of PA on two indicators of creative potential—divergent and convergent thinking, each of which adopts a different cognitive pathway. We also investigated the influence of a physiological condition, low body mass index (BMI), on the relation between PA and creative potential. This was a randomized controlled experiment involving 34 school children randomly assigned to either the dance intervention or a sedentary group based on their BMI profile. We measured the children's divergent and convergent thinking at pre- and post-intervention time points. Following this single PA session, we found a significant difference between divergent and convergent thinking abilities in treatment group participants with normal BMI levels and participants in the control group, but there was no difference between low BMI level treatment group participants and those in the control group. This study supported hypothesized boundary conditions for executive function improvements from PA and suggests a need for a holistic approach (involving both proper nourishment and PA) in order to facilitate improved creativity in children.

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Factor analytic approach to the structural differentiation of description.

Cited by 11 publications

References 8 publications

Applied Research Using Alpha/Theta Training for Enhancing Creativity and Well-Being

Applied Research Using Alpha/Theta Training for Enhancing Creativity and Well-Being

Give your ideas some legs: The positive effect of walking on creative thinking.

Impact of Acute Physical Activity on Children's Divergent and Convergent Thinking: The Mediating Role of a Low Body Mass Index

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