Creative Adaptability: A Measurable Personal Resource

Neurodynamics of Relational Aesthetic Engagement in Creative Arts Therapies

“…Minimizing prediction errors through active and enactive inference involves the embodied capacity to generate experience through action, thereby fostering creativity (Schiavio & Benedek, 2020). As living beings, embedded in social environmental contexts, functionality and novelty are essential to survive and thrive in the uncertain and changing world (Orkibi, 2023;Orkibi et al, 2021). The arts, rich in aesthetic experiences, enable genuine moments of discovery that encompass tensions and uncertainties (change) as well as self-validating certainty (order) that often serves as an impetus for further forays into change; they are transformative as they shape (freedom of) action (Van de Cruys et al, 2024).…”

“…Individual differences may also relate to cognitive and behavioral flexibility, that is, the mental ability of a person to switch and adjust thoughts and actions according to context, whereas rigidity (inflexibility) appears to be a core feature of diverse neurodevelopmental and psychiatric conditions (Uddin, 2021). Indeed, creative ideas and performance benefits from a balance between flexibility and stability (Orkibi, 2023), associated with large-scale functional brain networks encompassing frontoparietal, DMN, reward, and salience regions (Uddin, 2021). These individual differences are taken into account and explored in CATs, presenting initial empirical research and methods of assessment related to the aesthetic experiences in different expressive artistic modalities (e.g., Rose et al, 2022;Schwenke et al, 2021;Vaartio-Rajalin et al, 2021).…”

Exploratory exploitation and exploitative exploration: The phenomenology of play and the computational dynamics of search

“…Furthermore, research on art therapy reveals that creating art can help people cope with and repair their negative moods (Bell & Robbins, 2007;Futterman Collier & Wayment, 2021). Indeed, creativity is a critical resource for resilience and coping with adversity (Orkibi, 2023). For example, the ability to generate new and adaptive responses to changed and/or stressful situations ("creative adaptability") positively predicts resilient coping, which in turn predicts decreased negative mood and greater well-being during periods of adversity (e.g., COVID-19 pandemic;Orkibi et al, 2021).…”

Mood regulation as a shared basis for creativity and curiosity

“…Furthermore, research on art therapy reveals that creating art can help people cope with and repair their negative moods (Bell & Robbins, 2007; Futterman Collier & Wayment, 2021). Indeed, creativity is a critical resource for resilience and coping with adversity (Orkibi, 2023). For example, the ability to generate new and adaptive responses to changed and/or stressful situations (“creative adaptability”) positively predicts resilient coping, which in turn predicts decreased negative mood and greater well-being during periods of adversity (e.g., COVID-19 pandemic; Orkibi et al, 2021).…”