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

He, Wu-jing

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1014612

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“…Respondents rate the ten emotional adjectives on a five-point Likert scale, ranging from 1 ("Very slightly or not at all") to 5 ("Extremely"). Convergent validity and discriminant validity of the scale have been confirmed (He, 2023). In our sample, the Positive Affect and Negative Affects scales showed coefficients of α = .78 and .74, respectively.…”

Section: Mental Health State Domainsupporting

confidence: 73%

Development and validation of an 8-item version of the Real Relationship Inventory–Client form

Stefana,

Fusar-Poli,

Vieta

et al. 2023

Preprint

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Objective: To develop and validate a very brief version of the 24-item Real Relationship Inventory–Client (RRI-C) form.Method: Individual psychotherapy patients (N = 700) completed the RRI-C along with other measures. Psychometric scale shortening involved exploratory factor analysis, item response theory analysis, and confirmatory factor analysis. Reliability and convergent and discriminant validity of the scale and subscales were also assessed.Results: The 8-item Real Relationship Inventory–Client Short Form (RRI-C-SF) preserves the two-factor structure: Genuineness (k=4, α=.87) and Realism (k=4, α=.86), which were correlated at r=.75. CFA provided the following fit indices: X2/df=4.88, CFI=.98, TLI=.97, RMSEA=.07, and SRMR=.03. The RRI-C-SF demonstrated high reliability (α=.91); high correlation with the full-length scale (r=.96); and excellent convergent and discriminant validity with measures of other elements of the therapeutic relationship, personality characteristics, current mental health state, and demographic-clinical variables. Clinical change benchmarks were calculated to serve as valuable tools for both research and clinical practice.Conclusion: The RRI-C-SF is a reliable measure that can be used for both research and clinical purposes. It enables a nuanced assessment of the genuineness and the realism dimensions of the real relationship.

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Section: Mental Health State Domainsupporting

confidence: 73%

Development and validation of an 8-item version of the Real Relationship Inventory–Client form

Stefana,

Fusar-Poli,

Vieta

et al. 2023

Preprint

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“…Moreover, some studies have suggested that negative emotions may in some cases even boost creativity, although through different mechanisms (Akinola & Mendes, 2008;Park & Seo, 2017;Du et al, 2021;He, 2023).…”

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confidence: 99%

Facilitating real-life creative insight through psychedelic virtual reality

Siimon,

Tulver,

Kaup

et al. 2023

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The goal of the present work was to study the potential of facilitating creative insight in a real-life setting. To that end, participants were recruited who were struggling with a creative problem and had reached an impasse. Based on previous research, we hypothesized that solutions might be facilitated through virtual reality that replicates visual content experienced under the influence of psychedelics. Psychedelic visual experiences might support creative insight by relaxing the priors and constraints the person has about their creative problem. To test this idea, we tested a psychedelic virtual reality (VR) and developed a novel VR control environment. We observed that qualitatively psychedelic VR was more useful for eliciting creative insights than the control. We provide a thematic analysis demonstrating that psychedelic VR supported several aspects of creative insight. Taken together, we tested a novel method of psychedelic virtual reality to enhance creativity in real-life settings and observed encouraging results, which need to be investigated in larger studies.

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“…It is equally important to consider that the musical preferences of individuals are largely shaped by exposure to specific music genres and common preferences within their peer groups. The underlying factors could range from shared cultural backgrounds, prospects for identity construction, or motivations satisfying individual psychological needs (Abele-Brehm, 1992;He, 2023), thereby directly influencing their predilections toward particular music genres (Lonsdale and North, 2011). Moreover, neurobiological responses, represented through varying reward mechanisms in the brain when we listen to preferred music, offer biological substantiation to the development of musical preferences (Huron, 2011;Salimpoor et al, 2011).…”

Section: The Effect Of Musical Emotional Valence On Creativitymentioning

confidence: 99%

The dual effect of background music on creativity: perspectives of music preference and cognitive interference

Xiao,

Tan,

Liu

et al. 2023

Front. Psychol.

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Music, an influential environmental factor, significantly shapes cognitive processing and everyday experiences, thus rendering its effects on creativity a dynamic topic within the field of cognitive science. However, debates continue about whether music bolsters, obstructs, or exerts a dual influence on individual creativity. Among the points of contention is the impact of contrasting musical emotions–both positive and negative–on creative tasks. In this study, we focused on traditional Chinese music, drawn from a culture known for its ‘preference for sadness,’ as our selected emotional stimulus and background music. This choice, underrepresented in previous research, was based on its uniqueness. We examined the effects of differing music genres (including vocal and instrumental), each characterized by a distinct emotional valence (positive or negative), on performance in the Alternative Uses Task (AUT). To conduct this study, we utilized an affective arousal paradigm, with a quiet background serving as a neutral control setting. A total of 114 participants were randomly assigned to three distinct groups after completing a music preference questionnaire: instrumental, vocal, and silent. Our findings showed that when compared to a quiet environment, both instrumental and vocal music as background stimuli significantly affected AUT performance. Notably, music with a negative emotional charge bolstered individual originality in creative performance. These results lend support to the dual role of background music in creativity, with instrumental music appearing to enhance creativity through factors such as emotional arousal, cognitive interference, music preference, and psychological restoration. This study challenges conventional understanding that only positive background music boosts creativity and provides empirical validation for the two-path model (positive and negative) of emotional influence on creativity.

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

Cited by 9 publications

References 62 publications

Development and validation of an 8-item version of the Real Relationship Inventory–Client form

Development and validation of an 8-item version of the Real Relationship Inventory–Client form

Facilitating real-life creative insight through psychedelic virtual reality

The dual effect of background music on creativity: perspectives of music preference and cognitive interference

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