Influence of Skill Level, Experience, Hours of Training, and Other Sport Participation on the Creativity of Elite Athletes

Richard, Véronique; Abdulla, Ahmed M.; Runco, Mark A.

doi:10.18536/jge.2017.04.02.01.07

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“…Memmert, Baker & Bertsch, 2010;Bowers et al, 2014) concur that the combination of both strategies may be essential in the development of sporting creativity. This is further supported by work developed by Richard, Abdulla, and Runco (2017), who explored the influence of skill level, experience, and hours of sport training and participation on everyday creativity (e.g. divergent thinking related to diary and distraction management, creative attitude and values) on a sample of 208 Canadian athletes (21 intermediate, 73…”

Section: Deliberate Practice Deliberate Playmentioning

confidence: 76%

Defining, assessing, and developing creativity in sport: a systematic narrative review

Fardilha

Allen

2019

International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology

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Research on creativity in sport is gaining momentum, due to a growing interest from coaches and academics in developing strategies to increase unpredictability in individual and collective behaviour which may allow teams to gain an important advantage over their opponents. The purpose of this paper was to conduct the first systematic narrative review of the literature on sporting creativity, critically synthesising 51 years of published research (1967-2018) and proposing avenues for future research. Six databases were used, and 48 documents met search criteria. The findings are organised in four categories: (a) defining creativity, (b) correlates of creativity, (c) assessing creativity and (d) developing creativity. Creativity definitions and assessments have privileged thought processes over the ability to act. A distinction is warranted between creativity about sport and creativity in sport (in action) and aligned assessment methods. The literature does not support a single strategy for the development of sporting creativity but does support its trainability. Evidence of the effectiveness of programmes for the enhancement of sporting creativity is growing but is still limited. Furthermore, while it is recognised that coaches have a pivotal role in the development of sporting creativity, research involving them is still scarce.

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Section: Deliberate Practice Deliberate Playmentioning

confidence: 76%

Defining, assessing, and developing creativity in sport: a systematic narrative review

Fardilha

Allen

2019

International Review of Sport and Exercise Psychology

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“…The second spectrum concerns the context in which creativity is manifested. On one end of this spectrum, studies apply DT to game situations and focus on creativity as an aspect of in-game performance (e.g., ; and on the other end, creativity is seen as an everyday-relevant quality (e.g., Richard et al, 2017). Taken together, this review reveals that, in the field of creativity research in team sports, clearly different entities have been investigated and subsumed under the single label of "creativity."…”

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“…Similarly framing creativity as an important attribute of players and relying on DT, the position of Kováč (1996Kováč ( , 1998 and Richard et al (2017) depicts creativity as a value demonstrated beyond the pitch. Here, DT is not related to game situations but rather captured in a wider context as a "developmental resource" (as termed by Rasmussen et al, 2019b, p. 491).…”

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“…Here, DT is not related to game situations but rather captured in a wider context as a "developmental resource" (as termed by Rasmussen et al, 2019b, p. 491). This perspective becomes clear when looking at the creativity assessment used by Richard et al (2017) in which, from a battery of creativity assessments (Runco Creative Assessment Battery: DT, Creative Attitude and Values, Creative personality, Creative Activity and Accomplishment Checklist), a DT-test was adapted to sports problems. An example item is as follows:…”

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On the Issue of Developing Creative Players in Team Sports: A Systematic Review and Critique From a Functional Perspective

Zahno

Hossner

2020

Front. Psychol.

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Driven by the practical goal of developing creative players, several approaches to training creativity have been proposed and underpinned by empirical studies in sport science. However, the scope of these studies encompasses various aspects, which have all been subsumed under the singular label of "creativity." Therefore, this systematic review aims to disentangle the pursued lines of thought in order to facilitate the derivation of well-grounded recommendations for sports practice. To this end, 38 studies are presented and characterized in terms of their underlying conceptualizations and measures of creativity. In most studies, creativity is conceptualized as a player's domain-specific divergent thinking (DT) ability, reflected by individual differences in the number, variety and originality of ideas he or she is able to generate in response to game situations. Empirical studies indicate that DT can be improved by practice. However, the critical assumption that an enhanced DT ability transfers to creative on-field actions has yet to be tested. On the basis of the reviewed literature, an alternative point of view is proposed. In line with a relational understanding of creativity and a functional approach to behavioral control, it is hypothesized that an enhanced repertoire of sensorimotor skills increases the probability for performing functional solutions that, within a specific social and cultural frame of reference, go beyond the expected and consequently appear creative to the observer. In the context of sports practice, the proposed conceptual re-orientation would then suggest, rather than seeking ways to improve players' DT ability, to target sensorimotor skills that allow players to perform a variety of task-solutions and thus to act less predictably to the opponent-or in other words, more creative.

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“…Dette kan gøre udøverne bedre til at opsøge, skabe og løse nye og uvante opgaver indenfor og udenfor traeningsbanen (Rasmussen et al, 2019), eksempelvis nye idéer til hjemmetraening. Et studie viser eksempelvis, at den kreative kompetence fleksibilitet (evnen til at få forskellige kategorier af ideer til den samme opgave) hjaelper med at håndtere hverdagsproblemer i livet som eliteudøver, såsom udfordringer med distraherende modstandere eller en sent planlagt traeningssession i en periode med tidskraevende skolearbejde (Richard et al, 2017).…”

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Kreativitetsfremmende hjemmetræning under Covid-19

Rasmussen

2021

FFI

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COVID-19 pandemien har medført en række udviklingsmæssige potentialer og udfordringer for idrætsudøvere på alle niveauer, herunder skærpede krav til udøvernes kreativitet. Baseret på kreativitetsteori og et review af kreativitetslitteraturen i sport, præsenterer artiklen tre anbefalinger til, hvordan børne- og ungeansvarlige kan inspirere udøverne til hjemmetræning. Disse idéer kan fastholde udøvernes engagement og udvikle kreative kompetencer, der er vigtige for at håndtere udfordringer forårsaget af forandringshændelser såsom COVID-19. Det anbefales således at 1) prioritere legen, 2) bruge selvpålagte begrænsninger og 3) træne kreative kompetencer. Der beskrives endvidere tre former for kreativitetstræning og gives eksempler på konkrete opgavebegrænsninger, der kan anvendes under hjemmetræning.

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Influence of Skill Level, Experience, Hours of Training, and Other Sport Participation on the Creativity of Elite Athletes

Cited by 16 publications

References 36 publications

Defining, assessing, and developing creativity in sport: a systematic narrative review

Defining, assessing, and developing creativity in sport: a systematic narrative review

On the Issue of Developing Creative Players in Team Sports: A Systematic Review and Critique From a Functional Perspective

Kreativitetsfremmende hjemmetræning under Covid-19

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