{"title":"Navigating the creative wilderness: A depth psychological perspective","authors":"Melinda Rothouse","doi":"10.1016/j.yjoc.2023.100052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yjoc.2023.100052","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Contemporary creativity research has made great strides in understanding and quantifying many elements of the creative process, but has focused less on the existential, lived experience of navigating creative barriers. Taking a Jungian, depth-psychological approach, this article considers creativity as a proverbial journey through the wilderness, examining how creatives find their way when they get stuck, experience blocks, lose inspiration, or contemplate giving up. Finding one's way through such barriers can be one of the most challenging aspects of the creative process, and yet is a vital element of the journey. Understanding how to navigate these obstacles with agility can lead to greater creative engagement and efficacy.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100769,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creativity","volume":"33 2","pages":"Article 100052"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50191328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Video games and creativity: The mediating role of psychological capital","authors":"Maxence Mercier, Todd Lubart","doi":"10.1016/j.yjoc.2023.100050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yjoc.2023.100050","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Video games play a big part in many individuals’ lives, children and adults alike. A large body of research has investigated both the potential negative and positive effects of video games. This paper examines whether playing video games is positively related to creativity, with a focus on adults' creativity in the workplace. Furthermore, it was posited that this link could be explained through the mediating effect of Psychological Capital (PsyCap). Using a cross-sectional design (N = 370), the results show a full mediation of the link between the frequency of playing video games and creativity, through optimism: playing video games is positively associated with higher optimism, which in turn is associated with more creativity in the workplace.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100769,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creativity","volume":"33 2","pages":"Article 100050"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50191330","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Revisiting creativity and critical thinking through content analysis","authors":"Ji Hoon Park, Yitian Li, Weihua Niu","doi":"10.1016/j.yjoc.2023.100056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yjoc.2023.100056","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>As essential 21st century skills, creativity and critical thinking have garnered the attention of educators and researchers. The aim of this research was to investigate the nature of the relationship between these two essential skills through a content analysis of past empirical studies. Twenty-seven peer-reviewed journal articles were selected for a systematic review. The selection criteria include the utilization of psychometrically valid and reliable creativity and critical thinking measure and the report of either a correlation between measures of creativity and critical thinking or a report of effect size of intervention program on the development of creativity and critical thinking. The results of the study revealed that the correlation between the two ranged from non-significant to large, depending on the nature of the study. Two factors influenced the degree of correlation: the type of measurements used and the demographic of the participants (e.g., age and country of origin of the participants). Results also revealed that fostering creativity and critical thinking simultaneously is possible but the development of each skill can vary. Implications are discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100769,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creativity","volume":"33 2","pages":"Article 100056"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50191358","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michelle Leanne Oppert , Valerie O'Keeffe , Markus Søbstad Bensnes , Alin L. Grecu , David H. Cropley
{"title":"The value of creativity: A scoping review","authors":"Michelle Leanne Oppert , Valerie O'Keeffe , Markus Søbstad Bensnes , Alin L. Grecu , David H. Cropley","doi":"10.1016/j.yjoc.2023.100059","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yjoc.2023.100059","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Growing rhetoric from industry-based white papers and global reports states that creativity is a vital skill for the future of work. However, despite centuries of study and debate, there remains a lack of consensus on the exact nature of the value of creativity. This scoping review followed the PRISMA-ScR guidelines with the objective of reviewing and describing the literature since 1980 to find a consensus description of the value of creativity. This review identifies a three-factor typology comprising extrinsic, instrumental, and intrinsic-inherent value as value construct propositions. The synthesis of the reviewed literature (<em>N</em> = 86), including a high Cohen's Kappa for interrater agreement on the articles (κ = 0.993), found that the value of creativity is predominantly instrumental and functions as a tool for achieving both extrinsic and intrinsic-inherent outcomes. This review sharpens the understanding of creativity, primarily in the subject matter area of business and workforce, by creating a value-informed basis that may be valuable for practitioners, scholars, and policymakers responsible for bolstering the rationale for a renewed focus on creativity as a vital 21st Century skill. Future research and limitations are discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100769,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creativity","volume":"33 2","pages":"Article 100059"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50191362","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Enock Swanzy-Impraim, Julia E. Morris, Geoffrey W. Lummis, Andrew Jones
{"title":"An investigation into the role of innovative learning environments in fostering creativity for secondary visual arts programmes in Ghana","authors":"Enock Swanzy-Impraim, Julia E. Morris, Geoffrey W. Lummis, Andrew Jones","doi":"10.1016/j.yjoc.2023.100054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yjoc.2023.100054","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Innovative learning environments (ILEs) have been regarded as one of the contributing factors that facilitate creativity in learners. At the pre-tertiary level of education, Ghana has recently undergone educational reform that sees creativity being added as a key goal for education, but it is unknown if teachers' practices within current educational facilities can support the enactment of this goal. The multi-site qualitative case study explores the secondary visual arts learning environments within the Sekondi-Takoradi Metropolis in Ghana. Interviews and observations were used as instruments for data collection with 16 visual arts teachers. This study confirmed two categories of environments that foster creativity: <em>innovative spaces and innovative practices (pedagogies)</em>. It recommends the prioritisation of innovative learning environments that facilitate creative development across secondary schools, the need for more collaborative classroom settings and a reduction of features (non-flexible layout, large class size, & under-resourced learning spaces) in the classroom that impede creativity.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100769,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creativity","volume":"33 2","pages":"Article 100054"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50191329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Theorizing creative challenges: Why are social creativity and reimagined universities necessary for tackling society's problems?","authors":"Robert A. Edgell, Daryl Lee","doi":"10.1016/j.yjoc.2023.100051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yjoc.2023.100051","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We theorize that social creativity is necessary for addressing the creative challenges—grand opportunities and wicked problems—facing modern society. Our paper seeks to understand why social creativity is an important variable for a theory of creative challenges and why educational institutions can, if reimagined, be ideal for developing this capacity. Drawing on auto-ethnographic methods, we reflect on our five-year collaborative project focused on animating and integrating creativity, interdisciplinarity, design, and entrepreneurship for tackling creative challenges. Our findings yield insights about effective pedagogies and institutional configurations for reproducing social creativity. We find that modern traditional academic institutions, dominated by disciplinary structures, cultures, and exogenous pressures that hinder interdisciplinarity and design, insufficiently develop this necessary prosocial capacity. In contrast, we discuss reimagined academic configurations that balance and integrate both disciplinarity and interdisciplinarity. We contribute clarifying rationales for why social creativity, comprising interdisciplinarity, design thinking, and entrepreneurial acumen, as well as the university reimagined are critical for more complete theorizing about creative challenges. Those who research, practice, and make policy for social change should find our observations, reflections, and analysis useful.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100769,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creativity","volume":"33 2","pages":"Article 100051"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50191332","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Can artificial intelligence identify creativity?: An empirical study","authors":"William Bart","doi":"10.1016/j.yjoc.2023.100057","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yjoc.2023.100057","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This article reports an investigation of the extent to which a chess program with an artificial intelligence component (i.e., Stockfish with NNUE) can identify 10 chess moves that are recognized as outstanding chess moves. Stockfish with NNUE was able to identify seven of the ten moves. Although Stockfish with NNUE is a very powerful chess program, it has some limitations in identifying creative chess moves. There is a discussion of those limitations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100769,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creativity","volume":"33 2","pages":"Article 100057"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50191361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A creative new normal: Who can we be in 20 years?","authors":"Ruth Richards","doi":"10.1016/j.yjoc.2023.100048","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yjoc.2023.100048","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Can we live better—with greater health, joy, purpose, and creative vision—toward a new type of “normality”? Picture a one-size-fits-all conformist norm<em>. Now contrast a dynamic evolving process-picture, different for each of us, honoring a diversity of ways we can all creatively—while harmoniously—grow and contribute together.</em> This article, from a new 2022 talk, continues discussion of Creativity, Chaos and Complexity (or NDS, nonlinear dynamical systems theory) from a 2021 keynote at the SOU Creativity Conference. Using five examples, it expands on one key feature, a Creative New Normal—with potential challenges and benefits, now and in 20 years. Drawn from chaos and complexity constructs, five colorful examples are used to paint one portrait of the future. A person, when creating, says “I am...” Alive!, Visionary, On a Path, Containing Worlds, and Empathetic. A shift could affect (a) our worldview—furthering a long awaited change in both <em>worldview</em> and view of <em>self</em>-<em>in</em>-<em>world</em>, consistent with an NDS paradigm shift, now 50 years old in the “hard sciences” but only beginning in social sciences; plus (b) educational practice—with an opportunity, given dramatic new interest in our universal “everyday creativity” (versus limitation to an eminent elite in arts and sciences) to open floodgates for creative development. Development of chaos and complexity <em>intuition</em> can boost further this facility. Although some still insist “I'm not creative!” too many have lacked resources, teachers, mentorship and confidence for creative self-development. Opening this creative path as a birthright and cultural expectation can help us all survive and thrive—for self, society, and our endangered planet.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100769,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creativity","volume":"33 2","pages":"Article 100048"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50191363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
C. June Maker , A. Kadir Bahar , Randy Pease , Fahad S. Alfaiz
{"title":"DISCOVERing and nurturing creative problem solving in young children: An exploratory study","authors":"C. June Maker , A. Kadir Bahar , Randy Pease , Fahad S. Alfaiz","doi":"10.1016/j.yjoc.2023.100053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yjoc.2023.100053","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The purpose of this exploratory study of creative problem-solving characteristics of young children was to (a) determine whether the percentage of creativity-relevant behaviors declined, stayed the same, or increased as children entered school and progressed to the first grade (ages 4, 5, and 6) and (b) describe differences and similarities across the three ages and ten domains in the assessment. Using a playbased assessment with developmentally appropriate, flexible materials and activities that were engaging to young children, trained observers with tablet computers administered the assessments, took photographs and videos, observed problemsolving behaviors, entered the behaviors into a database, reviewed children's performance with others in talent groupings, and made decisions about children's strengths across the ten areas of ability. Across the talent areas, of the 29 behaviors included, the percentage of 18 creative problem-solving behaviors increased across the three years, 9 behaviors declined at age 5 and increased at age 6, and from age 5 to age 6, 4 behaviors declined. The patterns were different in different talent areas. Consistent with results of other studies of this age group, we concluded that agerelated development, teaching methods, culture, and other factors interact in the development of creative problem solving. The use of creativity-enhancing teaching methods can make a positive difference in children's development of creative problem solving.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100769,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creativity","volume":"33 2","pages":"Article 100053"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50191331","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ahmed M. Abdulla Alabbasi , Ahmed M. Alansari , Aseel AlSaleh , Abdel Halim Salem , Alaa Eldin A. Ayoub
{"title":"Predictors of academic success among undergraduate medical programs: The roles of divergent and convergent thinking","authors":"Ahmed M. Abdulla Alabbasi , Ahmed M. Alansari , Aseel AlSaleh , Abdel Halim Salem , Alaa Eldin A. Ayoub","doi":"10.1016/j.yjoc.2023.100058","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yjoc.2023.100058","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Over the past two decades, researchers in the medical field have attempted to predict academic success in undergraduate medical programs. Existing literature indicates that factors such as metacognitive awareness, motivation, and emotional intelligence predict academic success among Doctor of Medicine (MD) students. However, the impact of divergent thinking (DT) and convergent thinking (CT) on MD students’ academic success remains uncertain. Moreover, most definitions and theories of giftedness focus on K-12 education, leaving a knowledge gap regarding gifted post-secondary learners, particularly in specialized fields like medicine. The present study aimed to bridge this gap by investigating the role of DT and CT in predicting academic success among 84 gifted post-secondary MD learners. Three assessments were administered: (a) Raven's Advanced Progressive Matrices Test, (b) the Watson-Glaser Critical Thinking Appraisal (WG-III), and (c) the Alternative Uses Test. Cluster analysis revealed a distinct three-cluster solution. Correlational and multiple regression analyses showed that the originality dimension of DT and the Drawing Conclusions and Recognizing Assumptions subscales of the WG-III were significantly associated with and predictive of the academic success of gifted undergraduate MD students. Notably, IQ was not significantly correlated with students’ grade point average. Recommendations for future research are also discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":100769,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creativity","volume":"33 2","pages":"Article 100058"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50191360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}