From moment-to-moment to day-to-day: Experience sampling and diary investigations in adults’ everyday creativity.

Abstract

Two studies examined the dynamics and predictors of momentary creative activity among adults. Study 1 (N = 74) applied the experience sampling methodology (ESM) to investigate the likelihood of engaging in creative activity and explain its variability using both within-person predictors (experienced emotions) and between person-predictors (personality and creative activity). This study also demonstrated that the likelihood of momentary creative activity during a random week at the age 52 is predicted by participants’ intelligence measured 4 decades ago. Study 2 extended these findings: In a 2-week-long diary study, participants (N = 433) reported their everyday creative behaviors and activity in the spheres related to arts (painting, composing music, writing), science (writing scientific articles, solving technical problems), and everyday functioning (cooking, blogging). Active positive emotions generally predicted day-to-day variability of creative behavior, whereas the role of individual-differences was more complex and domain-specific.

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“…Participants' expressions are related to previous studies that indicate the impact of creative activities on the general well-being of people (Richard, 2010) and the development of positive emotions (Benedek, Jauk, Kerschenbauer, Anderwald, & Grond, 2017;Silvia, 2015;Conner, DeYoung, & Silvia, 2018;Karwowski, Lebuda, Szumski, & Firkowska-Mankiewicz, 2017;Silvia, al, 2014). Participants use words such as happiness, pleasure, relief, relaxation and satisfaction to define how they feel during and after creative activities.…”

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“…Las expresiones de los participantes se relacionan con estudios anteriores que indican los impactos de las actividades creativas en el bienestar general de las personas (Richard, 2010) y el desarrollo de emociones positivas (Benedek, Jauk, Kerschenbauer, Anderwald y Grond, 2017;Conner, DeYoung y Silvia, 2018;Karwowski, Lebuda, Szumski y Firkowska-Mankiewicz, 2017;Silvia et al, 2014). Los participantes usan palabras como felicidad, placer, alivio, relajación y satisfacción para definir cómo se sienten durante y después de las actividades creativas.…”

Educational Consequences of Creativity: A Creative Learning Perspective

“…Theories -Research -Applications 5(2) 2018 portant for understanding creative learning, but generalize to creativity science as a whole. In recent years, creativity researchers have recognized this and started using a variety of more sensitive and dynamic techniques, including: ecological momentary assessment (Czerwonka, 2019;Karwowski, Lebuda, Szumski, & Firkowska -Mankiewicz, 2017;Silvia et al, 2014), passive automatized measurement (D'Mello, Dieterle, & Duckworth, 2017), rigorous observational studies Katz-Buonincontro & Anderson, 2018), and blended approaches that link solid cognitive measures with a look into individuals' strategies, while dealing with creative tasks (Jankowska, Czerwonka, Lebuda, & Karwowski, 2018;Loesche, Goslin, & Bugmann, 2018).…”