The Predictive Ability of Emotional Creativity in Creative Performance Among University Students

Alzoubi, Ahmad Mohammad Ali; Qudah, Mohammad Farhan Al.; Albursan, Ismael Salamah; Bakhiet, Salaheldin Farah Attallah; Alfnan, Ali A.

doi:10.1177/21582440211008876

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“…The purpose of the current study was to report the relationships between creativity, emotional intelligence, and personality traits (openness to experiences, agreeableness, emotional stability, conscientiousness, and extraversion). Much of the related research has focused on the relationship between emotional intelligence and creativity (Alzoubi et al, 2021; Duman et al, 2014; Ruiz‐Ariza et al, 2019; Stawicki et al, 2023; Stephens et al, 2015; Tu et al, 2020) or personality traits and creativity (Jirásek & Sudzina, 2020; Karwowski et al, 2013; Li et al, 2022; Singh & Kaushik, 2015), and some of them have revealed diverse findings. The intent of the current study is to have a holistic view of the associations among the mentioned variables.…”

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Does creativity matter in personality traits and emotional intelligence?

Akpur

2024

Psychology in the Schools

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Creativity has long been consistently assessed as a fundamental aspect of educational psychology and has been treated with much devotion by scholars. In this study, intricate relationship patterns between creativity, emotional intelligence, and personality traits were examined. The Marmara Creative Thinking Dispositions Scale, Trait Emotional Intelligence Questionnaire‐Short Form (TEIQue‐SF), and The Ten‐Item Personality Inventory (TIPI) were administered to a cohort of 297 university students attending a university in İstanbul. The findings unveiled important insights into how these components interact. Employing correlational analysis to examine the relationships among the variables, it was found that while agreeableness did not exhibit a significant correlation with creativity, the remaining traits within the Big Five personality dimensions—openness to experience (r = .63), emotional stability (r = .29), conscientiousness (r = .38), and extraversion (r = .49)—displayed positively significant associations with creativity (p < .01), suggesting that individuals characterized by greater openness to experience, emotional stability, conscientiousness, and extraversion tend to exhibit higher levels of creativity in academic settings. That the link between emotional intelligence and creativity highlights a noteworthy association implies that individuals possessing higher levels of emotional intelligence are more likely to excel in creative endeavors. Regression analysis was employed to determine the specific contributions of each personality characteristic to creativity. Interestingly, when examining the predictive value of these factors, conscientiousness did not emerge as a statistically significant predictor of creativity. In contrast, both openness to experiences and extraversion exhibited strong predictive power, significantly influencing creativity. Similarly, emotional intelligence continued to be a significant predictor of creativity, reinforcing its role as a catalyst for innovative thinking. The results imply that individuals with higher levels of openness to experience, emotional stability, conscientiousness, and extraversion tend to be more creative in academic settings, highlighting the significance of emotional intelligence in promoting creative thinking and points out its potential to support creative endeavors.

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Does creativity matter in personality traits and emotional intelligence?

Akpur

2024

Psychology in the Schools

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“…Creativity generally supports creative performance and innovations ( Fetrati and Nielsen, 2018 ; Alzoubi et al, 2021 ). However, negative emotions and stress present over the COVID-19 epidemic might have mitigated the impact of creativity on innovation.…”

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The predictive ability of emotional creativity in motivation for adaptive innovation among university professors under COVID-19 epidemic: An international study

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Emotional creativity (EC) refers to cognitive abilities and personality traits related to the originality of emotional experience and expression. Previous studies have found that the COVID-19 epidemic and the restrictions imposed increased the levels of negative emotions, which obstructed adaptation. This research suggests that EC predicts the motivation for innovative adaptive behavior under the restrictions of COVID-19. In the case study of university professors, we show that EC predicts the motivation to creatively capitalize on the imposed online teaching in looking for innovative research and personal development. Methodologically, we rely on the Emotional Creativity Inventory (ECI) administered to a sample of 463 university professors (41.5% men, aged 22–100. M ± SD = 45.53 ± 11.46, median 44) from the Czech Republic (N = 137), Slovak Republic (N = 61), and Russia (N = 265). The indicators for motivation for innovative performance included motivations to use distant methods of scientific research, to look for partners for conducting scientific research in other cities or abroad, to conduct interdisciplinary research, starting distance learning to enhance qualifications, and the perception that due to online teaching, there is more time for personal development. We employ a set of ordinal regression analyses controlling for age, gender, position (lecturer, researcher, and manager), type of science (formal, natural, social, and applied), and country. The results suggest that Emotional Creativity and its three components predict the motivation of university professors to creatively capitalize on the imposed online teaching in looking for innovative research and personal development under the conditions of COVID-19. Furthermore, our results confirmed the gender and age differences in EC. The differences in EC according to position (lecturer, researcher, and manager) and type of science were not statistically significant. These results compel us to be aware of the importance of the emotional side of creativity to optimize stress-related behavior under the conditions of limited abilities to continue as usual. More space devoted to the manifestation of all the aspects of emotional creativity would improve adaptation to challenging circumstances and even allow one to capitalize on new opportunities. Moreover, we suggest that if personal intrinsic Emotional Creativity is high, the crises, such as the COVID-19 epidemic, may improve adaptation and trigger creative outcomes.

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“…Female participants score higher than males on two of those facets: emotional preparedness and effectiveness/authenticity, and those can be mapped approximately to a variety of other personality variables, including the Big Five personality traits. One recent study (Alzoubi et al, 2021) shows that these three facets predict performance creativity, while another study argues they predict intrinsic motivation and academic engagement in university students (Oriol et al, 2016). Second, unrelated to creativity per se, but indirectly relevant, the Empathy Components Questionnaire (ECQ; Batchelder et al, 2017) measures cognitive and affective components of empathy, including ability and drive components within each.…”

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The Processes and Relationships in Composers Scale

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Music Perception: An Interdisciplinary Journal

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We introduce a new inventory labeled the Processes and Relationships in Composers Scale (PRCS). This is a novel inventory developed to self-assess creative and social factors inherent in music composition. The PRCS consists of two separate scales of 12 items each, namely the Composing Processes Scale (CPS) and the Social Relationship Scale (SRS). An exploratory factor analysis revealed that the CPS scale has a single factor structure, while the SRS scale relies on three main factors: loneliness, support, and friendship. The total score of the CPS was found to be highly reliable, whereas the SRS obtained a lower score. The PRCS can contribute new insights into how creative and social processes can be self-assessed by music composers with different backgrounds and levels of musical expertise. Our work aims to deepen understanding of the relationship between musical creativity and social life, contributing to existing scholarship that has explored this connection in musical activities specifically.

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The Predictive Ability of Emotional Creativity in Creative Performance Among University Students

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Does creativity matter in personality traits and emotional intelligence?

Does creativity matter in personality traits and emotional intelligence?

The predictive ability of emotional creativity in motivation for adaptive innovation among university professors under COVID-19 epidemic: An international study

The Processes and Relationships in Composers Scale

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