Meta-creativity: what is it and how does it relate to creativity?

Orientation Toward Intrinsic Motivation Mediates the Relationship Between Metacognition and Creativity

“…For example, Hargrove and Nietfeld (2015) found that practicing metacognitive strategies increased metacognitive knowledge and regulation and subsequently led to more creative outcomes. But in line with recent research (Karwowski, 2021;Mevarech & Paz-Baruch, 2022;Pesout & Nietfeld, 2021;Sidi et al, 2020;Zieli ńska et al, 2021Zieli ńska et al, , 2022, the present study provides openings for more complex interventions, such as those that can target all four facets of selfregulation: namely cognitive strategies, metacognitive knowledge at the Person level (when, why, and how one can perform creatively), metacognitive regulation at Task × Person level (planning, accurately monitoring and evaluating one's creative performance), intrinsic motivation at the Person level (performing creatively because I feel confident at doing so and because I recognize the value of creativity), intrinsic motivation at Task × Person level (monitoring and regulating my interest during task resolution), and affective states on both Person and Task × Person level.…”

“…Metacognitive knowledge and motivation at the Person level, along with metacognitive monitoring and regulation of cognitive strategies, affect, and motivation regulation at the Task × Person level, are the four key facets of the ability to self‐regulate one's actions in different contexts (Efklides, 2008, 2011). Since Pesut (1990) suggested that general metacognitive awareness is helpful for the production of creative ideas, a growing number of studies have focused on the role of metacognitive knowledge (Urban et al., 2021), accurate metacognitive regulation skills (Mevarech & Paz‐Baruch, 2022; Pesout & Nietfeld, 2021; Sidi et al., 2020; Steele et al., 2021; Urban & Urban, 2021), and overall self‐regulation (Karwowski, 2021; Zielińska et al., 2021, 2022) in creative performance. Pesut's (1990) view is supported by Urban et al.…”

“…And finally, the measures of metacognition and motivation employed in the study were developed primarily for the domains of learning and problem‐solving. Although Person level traits are usually considered to be domain‐general (Efklides, 2011), future research should employ measures developed specifically for creativity contexts (e.g., Mevarech & Paz‐Baruch, 2022; Zielińska et al., 2022).…”

Do We Need Metacognition for Creativity? A Necessary Condition Analysis of Creative Metacognition

“…Recently though, several self-reported questionnaires have been developed that directly target creative metacognition. The Metaprocesses Questionnaire (MP) by Mevarech & Paz-Baruch (2022) is administered directly after a creativity task and contains two factors concerning general and task-specific creative metacognition. The Creative Self-Regulation Questionnaire (CSR-Q) developed by contains seven factors relating to cognitive and metacognitive strategies employed before, during, and after the person performs a creativity task.…”

“…The higher-order thinking has long been a topic of discussion in philosophy because of its' perplexing nature (Rosenthal, 1993;White, 1988). As a practical consequence, the creativity research shows only a small correlation between offline measures of creative metacognition and actual creative performance (Mevarech & Paz-Baruch, 2022; Urban & Urban, in preparation; Zielińska, Forthmann et al;2022). As Snyder et al (2019) point out in their systematic review, the ever-increasing use of self-reported questionnaires in creativity research may be therefore problematic (see also Craig et al, 2020, for a systematic review on the use of self-report questionnaires in metacognition research).…”