Linking Creativity to Psychological Well‐being: Integrative Insights from the Instrumental Emotion Regulation Theory

Leung, Angela K.‐Y.; Koh, Brandon; Phang, Riyang; Lee, Sean Teck Hao; Huang, Tengjiao

doi:10.1002/jocb.524

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“…Some scholars suggested that PA enhances the ability to switch between global attention mode and local attention mode and the ability to choose between different perspectives (Rego et al, 2012). Conversely, NA states (such as anxiety and depression) are associated with attentional deficits and maladjustment of cognitive control mechanisms, and NA often leads to a narrowing of attention span (Leung et al, 2021). Therefore, NA should have the effect of impeding cognitive flexibility and creative problem solving.…”

Section: Affect and Creativitymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Effect of Animation-Guided Mindfulness Meditation on the Promotion of Creativity, Flow and Affect

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Creativity is so important for social and technological development that people are eager to find an easy way to enhance it. Previous studies have shown that mindfulness has significant effects on positive affect (PA), working memory capacity, cognitive flexibility and many other aspects, which are the key to promoting creativity. However, there are few studies on the relationship between mindfulness and creativity. The mechanism between mindfulness and creativity is still uncertain. Meditation is an important method of mindfulness training, but for most people who do not have the basic training, it’s difficult to master how to get into a state of mindfulness. Animation has been shown by many studies to help improve cognition and is often used as a guiding tool. Using animation as the guiding carrier of meditation is more convenient and easier to accept. Therefore, this study adopted the intervention method of animation-guided meditation, aiming to explore: (1) the effect of animation-guided meditation on enhancing creativity; (2) the role of flow and emotion in the influence of mindfulness on creativity. We advertised recruitment through the internal network of a creative industrial park, and the final 95 eligible participants were divided into two groups: animation (n = 48) and audio (n = 47) guided meditation. The animation group was given an animated meditation intervention, and the audio group was given an audio meditation intervention, both interventions were performed 3 times a week and last for 8 weeks. Results: (1) Animation-guided meditation significantly increased participants’ mindfulness and creativity levels; Significantly reduced their cognitive load compared to audio-guided meditation. (2) Mindfulness has a significant direct effect on creativity, and significant indirect effects on creativity; Flow and PA act as the mediating variable. Conclusion: (1) Mindfulness, flow, and PA all helped to improve the subjects’ work creativity. In addition to the direct positive impact of mindfulness on creativity, mindfulness can also have an indirect positive impact on creativity through flow and PA. (2) Compared with audio, animation can significantly reduce cognitive load and help improve users’ cognitive ability, which is more suitable for the guidance materials of mindfulness meditation to enhance the effect of meditation.

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Section: Affect and Creativitymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Effect of Animation-Guided Mindfulness Meditation on the Promotion of Creativity, Flow and Affect

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“…The inter-relationship between emotional balance and creativity is therefore crucial to building the professional competences our future requires. Research suggests that positive emotions favor the execution of creative tasks (Conner & Silvia, 2015; Leung et al, 2022). More specifically, it has been found that children rated as having more developed emotion regulation by their parents display greater fluency, flexibility, and originality in divergent thinking (Hoffmann & Russ, 2012).…”

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Cognitive reappraisal and creative self-concept among higher education students: A latent class analysis.

Álvarez-Huerta¹,

Muela²,

Hermida³

2023

Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts

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Emotion regulation affects both personal and academic development, and it may also impact students' creative development. The main aim of this study was to analyze the extent to which higher education students' creative self-concept is influenced by their use of cognitive reappraisal as an emotion regulation strategy. We also examined the influence on the use of cognitive reappraisal of the following variables: grit, age, gender, and field of study. Participants were 990 Spanish university students aged between 17 and 32 years (M age = 18.44, SD = 1.52; 59.26% male). Latent class analysis identified three underlying profiles of cognitive reappraisal use. Perseverance of effort, one of the components of grit, was associated with a higher use of cognitive reappraisal to regulate emotion. Students who made greater use of cognitive reappraisal were also more likely to be more confident in their ability to be creative. These results suggest that enhancing students' emotion regulation skills should be a goal of higher education, insofar as this would also foster their creative potential. Emotion skills training should aim, in particular, to build perseverance of effort.

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“…Creative thinking is a dynamic process that involves shifting between multiple modes of thought to generate novel and useful ideas [1][2][3][4][5][6] . It is widely accepted that emotional states considerably influence creativity [7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15] . However, whether positive or negative moods facilitate or inhibit creativity is an ongoing debate in the literature [7][8][9] .…”

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Emotion induction modulates neural dynamics during ideational originality

Khalil,

Frühholz,

Godde

2024

Preprint

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Emotions remarkably impact our creative minds; nevertheless, a comprehensive mapping of their underlying neural mechanisms remains elusive. Therefore, we explored the influence of induced emotional states on ideational originality and its associated neural dynamics. Participants were randomly presented with three short videos with sad, neutral, and happy content. After each video, ideational originality was evaluated using the alternate uses task (AUT). Ideational originality was significantly higher after induction of the happy state than the neutral state; in contrast, there was a nonsignificant difference between the sad and neutral states. Associated neural dynamics were assessed through EEG time-frequency (TF) power and phase-amplitude coupling (PAC) analysis. Our findings suggest that emotional states elicit distinct TF and PAC profiles associated with ideational originality. Relative to baseline, gamma activity was enhanced after the neutral induction and more enhanced after the induction of a happy state, but reduced after the induction of a sad state in 2-4 seconds after starting the task. Our PAC findings suggest that the attention system may be silent after the induction of a happy emotional state to load rich materials into working memory (WM) and active in the sad state to maintain these materials in WM.

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Linking Creativity to Psychological Well‐being: Integrative Insights from the Instrumental Emotion Regulation Theory

Cited by 5 publications

References 191 publications

The Effect of Animation-Guided Mindfulness Meditation on the Promotion of Creativity, Flow and Affect

The Effect of Animation-Guided Mindfulness Meditation on the Promotion of Creativity, Flow and Affect

Cognitive reappraisal and creative self-concept among higher education students: A latent class analysis.

Emotion induction modulates neural dynamics during ideational originality

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