The Creative Life: A Daily Diary Study of Creativity, Affect, and Well-Being in Creative Individuals

Smith, Kaile; Pickering, Alan D.; Bhattacharya, Joydeep

doi:10.1080/10400419.2022.2122371

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“…Rather, arousal (or activation intensity) and valence (or hedonic tone) interact with each other to determine the relevant processes and outcomes. Indeed, an increasing number of empirical studies (e.g., Chi et al, 2021 ; Frith et al, 2022 ; Smith et al, 2022 ) have supported the critical role of activation intensity with respect to moderating the effect of positive and negative valence on creative functioning. It was found that both high-activated positive affect (e.g., happiness) and high-activated negative affect (e.g., anger) are associated with a higher level of creative performance than low-activated positive affect (e.g., relaxation) and low-activated negative affect (e.g., sadness).…”

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Positive and negative affect facilitate creativity motivation: Findings on the effects of habitual mood and experimentally induced emotion

2023

Front. Psychol.

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This research involved two investigations that examined the effects of two types of affect (i.e., mood and emotion) on creativity motivation. Study 1 examined the degree to which noninduced habitual mood impacted creativity motivation in the context of a group of junior secondary school students in Hong Kong (n = 588), while Study 2 examined the effect of the experimental manipulation of emotion induction on creativity motivation in the context of a group of undergraduate students in Hong Kong (n = 653). The Chinese version of the Creativity Motivation Scale, the International Positive and Negative Affect Schedule-Short Form, and the Affect Grid were employed to assess creativity motivation, mood, and emotional states, respectively. Interesting findings were obtained. First, both studies consistently demonstrated a facilitating role of positive and negative affect in creativity motivation. Second, both studies consistently showed that the impact of positive affect on creativity motivation was stronger than that of negative affect. While previous affect-creativity research has focused predominantly on the role of affect in the cognitive components of creativity and yielded mixed results, this research adds to the literature by showing that students’ motivation to engage in creativity-related behaviors can be influenced by a broad spectrum of affective experiences (i.e., positive and negative affect, stable and enduring moods, and momentary and mutable emotions). The theoretical and educational implications of the findings are highlighted.

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Positive and negative affect facilitate creativity motivation: Findings on the effects of habitual mood and experimentally induced emotion

2023

Front. Psychol.

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“…Research using daily life methods-such as daily diaries and within-day experience sampling-shows that people spend an appreciable amount of their time doing things that they classify as creative (Karwowski et al, 2017;Silvia et al, 2014;Zeitlen et al, 2022) and rate some days as relatively more creative than others (Conner & Silvia, 2015;Conner et al, 2018;Karwowski et al, 2021;Smith et al, 2022;Yu et al, 2021). Like the broader body of daily life work, the present research is grounded in models of everyday creativity (Richards, 2010;Silvia et al, 2017).…”

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Creative Omnivores: An Experience Sampling Study of the Variety and Diversity of Everyday Creative Activities

Silvia

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Christensen

2023

Creativity Research Journal

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Studies of everyday creativity suggest that some people are like creative omnivores, dabbling in a broad range of creative pursuits, but others are like picky eaters, focusing on a single creative passion. A week-long experience sampling study examined the breadth vs depth of 125 university students' everyday creative activities. Several times a day, people were asked if they were doing something creative, and if they were, to describe what they were doing. Diversity statistics quantified the variety (number of distinct domains) and balance (the relative predominance of any domain) of their creative activities. The sample varied widely in both aspects of diversity, reflecting differences in whether people's creative efforts were relatively broad or focused. Notably, people who were high in openness to experience showed significantly higher variety (they did more kinds of creative activities) yet lower balance (one or two activities predominated), suggesting that they had a broad creative diet but a few favorite foods.

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“…Apart from the role of trait-like curiosity in creative action, studies utilizing micro-longitudinal, dynamic designs show that a large amount of variability in both curiosity and creative behavior (Karwowski, Lebuda, Szumski, & Firkowska-Mankiewicz, 2017;Silvia et al, 2014;Smith, Pickering, & Bhattacharya, 2022) stems from within-rather than between-person variation. Regardless of people's relatively stable tendencies to engage in novelty-seeking behavior, the state of being curious and the engagement in creative activities vary on a daily or even moment-to-moment basis.…”

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

Moldoveanu

2024

Behav Brain Sci

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The Creative Life: A Daily Diary Study of Creativity, Affect, and Well-Being in Creative Individuals

Cited by 18 publications

References 88 publications

Positive and negative affect facilitate creativity motivation: Findings on the effects of habitual mood and experimentally induced emotion

Positive and negative affect facilitate creativity motivation: Findings on the effects of habitual mood and experimentally induced emotion

Creative Omnivores: An Experience Sampling Study of the Variety and Diversity of Everyday Creative Activities

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

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