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

Mindfulness has long been concerned and emphasized by scholars in the field of psychology, but there is still a lack of research on mindfulness in management in China. In this study, a questionnaire survey was conducted among 483 employees in the new media industry in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, and Hangzhou, China. After modeling and analysis, it was found that employee mindfulness has a positive influence on innovative behavior. Employee mindfulness and innovative behavior are mediated by positive emotions. Employee mindfulness and innovative behavior are mediated by work engagement. Employee mindfulness and innovative behavior are mediated by a chain of positive emotions and work engagement. Enterprise managers should improve the level of mindfulness of employees in the new media industry through mindfulness training and courses for mindfulness training, create an organizational environment that can arouse positive emotions and improve the positive emotions of employees, pay attention to arousing the enthusiasm of the staff, and promote the innovative behavior of staff while enhancing work engagement.

Section: Literature Review and Hypothesesmentioning

confidence: 57%

The effect of employee mindfulness in the new media industry on innovative behavior: The chain mediating role of positive emotion and work engagement

Kuang

2022

“…One approach considers flow a branch of mindfulness because both flow and mindfulness focus on one's awareness of the present moment. This approach has been supported in studies that examined how mindfulness helped individuals stay focused and maintain awareness of the present in various settings (Chen et al, 2019 , 2022a , b ; Liu et al, 2022b ). In contrast, another approach argues that flow and mindfulness are different from each other: mindfulness emphasizes one's self-awareness of his or her internal states, whereas an individual's self-awareness is largely weakened in the state of flow, due to an intense and focused concentration on the present (Reid, 2011 ).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…Fifth, although flow is often considered an optimal experience that helps individuals regulate their emotions and improve their wellbeing (Chen et al, 2022b ), the role of flow in inducing problematic SVA use suggests its downside, which has been understudied in prior research. This reminds us to revisit flow in relation to mindfulness, a state of paying full attention to the present (Bishop et al, 2004 ; Regan et al, 2020 ; Liu et al, 2022a ) and keeping a non-judgmental awareness of one's internal experiences (Baer et al, 2006 ; Kabat-Zinn, 2015 ).…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

A techno-psychological approach to understanding problematic use of short-form video applications: The role of flow

Huang

Hu²,

Zhang³

2022

Short-form video applications (SVAs) have been gaining increasing popularity among users, which has raised the concern of problematic SVA use. Flow—a positive experience in which individuals feel immersion, enjoyment, temporal dissociation, and curiosity—contributes to the development of problematic SVA use. Most of the prior research examined the motivations of flow and the self-traits that trigger flow, but paid limited attention to the technological affordances of smartphone applications that facilitate users' flow. Algorithm recommendation, multimodality, and low-cost interaction are three affordances of SVAs. Thus, drawing upon the stimulus-organism-response (S-O-R) framework, this study proposes a mediation model to examine how these affordances influence problematic SVA use through flow. An online survey (N = 621) showed that algorithm recommendation was negatively associated with problematic SVA use but was not significantly correlated to flow. Multimodality was directly and positively associated with problematic SVA use. Meanwhile, the relationship between these two variables were mediated by flow. Low-cost interaction had an indirect link with problematic SVA use via flow, while the direct link between them was not significant. The results suggest that low-cost interaction is the affordance that is most likely to trigger flow and problematic SVA use, followed by multimodality. However, algorithm recommendation seems to be an affordance that is less likely to facilitate flow or cause problematic SVA use. Our proposed model not only enriches the S-O-R framework in the digital environment, but also denotes a techno-psychological approach to examine problematic use of SVAs and other digital applications. Moreover, the findings offer practical implications for optimizing SVAs' technological affordances to properly manage problematic SVA use.

“…The Covid-19 pandemic has induced adolescents’ increased engagement on social media for multiple activities: work ( Liu et al, 2022e ), education ( Hsu et al, 2021 ), socialization (Liu et al, 2021), entertainment ( Chen et al, 2022a , b ), etc., which may influence parental intervention strategies. Our study focused on parental intervention in the post-pandemic era.…”

Section: Discussionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Parental intervention strategies and operating mechanism on adolescent social media use—The concept of literacy improvement based on interaction

Wang

Chen

2022

This study focuses on a realistic picture of parental intervention in the use of social media among teenagers in the post-pandemic era. First, based on a questionnaire survey and in-depth interviews, and under the guidance of the concept of interactive literacy improvement, we propose a conceptual model and a verifiable measurement dimension of parental-mediated intervention. Second, based on the comparison of parent–child samples, it was found that parental-mediated intervention strategies are often used in families, and parents and children have roughly the same cognition and preference for the four intervention strategies. However, parents reported that they use intervention strategies much more frequently than perceived by their children. Third, we constructed and verified the prediction model of “individual technical characteristics-online family environment-parental-mediated intervention,” namely, the hierarchical progressive logic of parental-mediated intervention, and realized the systematization of influencing factors. The study confirmed that the effectiveness of parental-mediated intervention is improved by parent–children “cohesion.” In the follow-up, we will focus on the new perspective of theoretical research on parental intervention and intra-generational digital inequality among adolescents.