Self-regulation for creative activity: The same or different across domains?

Zielińska, Aleksandra; Forthmann, Boris; Lebuda, Izabela; Karwowski, Maciej

doi:10.1037/aca0000540

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“…Recent developments in the field have led to a new theoretical framework of creative self-regulation Zielińska et al, 2021;Zielińska, Forthmann et al, 2022; Urban, 2022). More importantly, more accurate self-evaluation of one's own ideas is related to higher creativity (Grohman et al, 2006;Karwowski et al, 2020;Pesout & Nietfeld, 2021; Urban & Urban, 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The higher-order thinking has long been a topic of discussion in philosophy because of its' perplexing nature (Rosenthal, 1993;White, 1988). As a practical consequence, the creativity research shows only a small correlation between offline measures of creative metacognition and actual creative performance (Mevarech & Paz-Baruch, 2022; Urban & Urban, in preparation; Zielińska, Forthmann et al;2022). As Snyder et al (2019) point out in their systematic review, the ever-increasing use of self-reported questionnaires in creativity research may be therefore problematic (see also Craig et al, 2020, for a systematic review on the use of self-report questionnaires in metacognition research).…”

Section: Off-line Measures Of Creative Metacognition: Self-reported Q...mentioning

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Do We Need Metacognition for Creativity? A Necessary Condition Analysis of Creative Metacognition

Urban¹,

Urban²

2023

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Recent studies suggest that metacognitive knowledge and accurate metacognitive monitoring are associated with higher creativity. However, previous findings were based solely on traditional statistical analyses applying sufficiency causal logic. Necessary condition analysis (NCA) is a novel methodological approach that tests whether a given predictor represents a necessary condition that allows an outcome to exist. Employing NCA, the present study examines whether accurate metacognitive monitoring is a necessary condition for creative performance. The study involved 385 participants and tested whether accurate metacognitive monitoring in the Unusual Uses Task was a necessary condition for creative performance in the more complex Product Improvement Task. Two accuracy indices (the Absolute Accuracy Index and Bias Index) were calculated for self-evaluation and comparison judgments. In both cases, the NCA results showed that accurate metacognitive monitoring was a necessary condition for creative performance with a large ceiling effect, median d = .42. This finding suggests that metacognition is necessary for creativity to occur; i.e., individuals with inaccurate metacognitive monitoring cannot exhibit high creativity. Additional linear and non-linear modeling (regression splines) identified moderate associations between metacognitive monitoring and creativity, with median R2 = 8%.

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Do We Need Metacognition for Creativity? A Necessary Condition Analysis of Creative Metacognition

Urban¹,

Urban²

2023

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“…While many aspects of inner speaking can characterize and affect idea generation, such as the role of dialogue or how condensed inner speaking is (de Rooij, 2022b), the role of inner speaking in self‐regulation might be particularly impactful. Self‐regulation broadly entails the strategies that people use to adaptively influence their thinking, emotional, and motivational states (Ivcevic & Nusbaum, 2017), and explains a large portion of the variance in creative activity and achievement (Zielińska, Forthmann, Lebuda, & Karwowski, 2023). Typically more so than classical predictors of creativity, such as divergent thinking (Said‐Metwaly, Taylor, Camarda, & Barbot, 2022).…”

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“…This is in line with a recent study on idea selection by de Rooij (2022a), whose findings indicated that people who engaged more frequently in self‐critical, and less frequently in self‐reinforcing, inner speaking, also had less confidence in the quality of their evaluations – above and beyond the frequency of negative and positive evaluations that occurred during idea evaluation. More generally, re‐evaluating positive and negative events during idea generation has also been shown to influence creativity during idea generation (de Rooij, Corr, & Jones, 2015, 2017; Zhu, Bauman, & Young, 2023), and self‐regulation of emotions and dealing with obstacles predicts creative activity and achievement (Zielińska et al., 2023). It follows that self‐reinforcing inner speaking increases the degree of originality and usefulness people attribute to their ideas, over and above the elicited effect of predicted originality and usefulness on the degree of originality and usefulness people attribute to their ideas (H3).…”

Section: Inner Speakingmentioning

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“…Whether self‐managing inner speaking in itself also affects the originality and usefulness of the subsequently generated ideas, however, is less clear. Studies on self‐regulation suggest that actively improving and in particular adjusting one's approach during a creative project predicts creativity in a sample of adolescents (Zielińska, Lebuda, Ivcevic, & Karwowski, 2022; Zielińska, Lebuda, & Karwowski, 2022), and predicts current and anticipated creative activity in a sample of adults (Zielińska et al., 2023). The use of inner speech to self‐regulate one's process, however, might be less effective (Daugherty, 1993; de Rooij, 2022a).…”

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Inner Speaking and Uncertainty during Idea Generation

Rooij

2023

Journal of Creative Behavior

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Inner speaking, the production, and experience of verbal language without any audible vocalization is a critical component of inner experience and imagination. The role that (un)certainty plays in idea generation might explain the unique ways in which idea generation is characterized and affected by different types of inner speech. To explore this open problem, an experiment with a within‐subject design (n = 202) was conducted. The results suggested that certainty about the potential of selected information for generating original and useful ideas, elicited using creativity instructions, caused increased self‐reinforcement, self‐management, and simulation of social interactions with imagined others by inner speaking, but did influence self‐critical inner speaking. Self‐reinforcing inner speaking, and possibly the simulation of social interactions, subsequently affected the degree of originality and usefulness participants attributed to their ideas. Herewith, the present study contributes novel insight into how inner speaking characterizes and affects idea generation.

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The Role of Epistemic Emotions and Activities in Creative Action: A Metacognitive and Self‐Regulatory Approach

Puente‐Díaz,

Cavazos‐Arroyo,

Puerta‐Sierra

2024

Journal of Creative Behavior

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Epistemic activities and emotions play an important role when generating, evaluating, and selecting creative ideas. This is especially so when examining creative actions developmentally. A total of 134 business students participated in an innovation tournament in which they were asked to explore product or service categories, generate, evaluate, and select their most creative idea, prepare a business plan of the idea selected, and present their ideas to peers who acted as participants and judges in 16 weeks. While preparing, participants were asked to complete a set of written assignments and questions to assess depth of knowledge of the category chosen, satisfaction, frustration, and self‐evaluations. All ideas were formalized as business plans and evaluated by peers during the innovation tournament. Results showed a positive relationship between depth of knowledge and satisfaction during the idea selection stage. Satisfaction and frustration were positively and negatively related, respectively, to evaluations of the creativity of the ideas. Last, depth of knowledge was the only significant predictor of peer evaluations of the creativity of the idea presented in their business plans. Qualitative findings during reflection showed important challenges for developing something truly original and effective. The implications of the results for creative action from a creative self‐regulatory and metacognitive perspective were discussed.

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Self-regulation for creative activity: The same or different across domains?

Cited by 26 publications

References 113 publications

Do We Need Metacognition for Creativity? A Necessary Condition Analysis of Creative Metacognition

Do We Need Metacognition for Creativity? A Necessary Condition Analysis of Creative Metacognition

Inner Speaking and Uncertainty during Idea Generation

The Role of Epistemic Emotions and Activities in Creative Action: A Metacognitive and Self‐Regulatory Approach

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