Zhitian Skylor Zhang, Martina Seemann, Richard Joos, Markus Suren, Helge Fischer, Mathias Hofmann
{"title":"Fostering Creativity Through Game-Based Approaches: A Scoping Review","authors":"Zhitian Skylor Zhang, Martina Seemann, Richard Joos, Markus Suren, Helge Fischer, Mathias Hofmann","doi":"10.1002/jocb.1536","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.1536","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Given the increasing emphasis on game-based approaches (GBAs) and the critical importance of cultivating creativity, there is an urgent need for a comprehensive examination of this emerging interdisciplinary field. The present study employs a scoping review methodology to provide an overview of the existing research that utilized GBAs as a means to foster creativity. Specifically, this article presents a scoping review of 61 studies published between 2000 and 2022 in English focusing on the use of GBAs to enhance creativity across various contexts. The results indicate an increasing trend in publications over the past two decades, with research clusters predominantly located in the United States, Taiwan, and Spain. Target groups primarily studied include adults in higher education, followed by children in K-12 settings, with the majority of studies conducted within classroom environments. A diverse array of GBAs have been employed in these studies, including video games, game-based learning, gamification, serious games, escape rooms, board games, and more, across both digital and non-digital media. These approaches were either developed by the researchers themselves or utilized pre-existing ones. Furthermore, GBAs have been found to foster various aspects of creativity, including creative thinking and problem-solving, flow and mastery experience, various aspects of the creative self, among others, pertaining to cognitive, motivational, affective, and sociocultural foundations. As such, this scoping review acts as a stimulus for ongoing research and refinement of game-based approaches aimed at enhancing creativity within both research and practical domains.</p>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jocb.1536","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143481296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Products of the Process: Toward Exploring and Expanding the Benefits of Being Creative","authors":"James C. Kaufman, Vlad P. Glăveanu","doi":"10.1002/jocb.70006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.70006","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The traditionally studied positive outcomes of creativity tend to be product-focused, such as Big-C contributions, good grades, or strong work performance. This paper makes an argument for the importance of less-discussed products of the process—the benefits that arise from being creative, regardless of one's abilities or level of achievement. These positive outcomes are more tied to such meaning-related concepts as self-understanding, feeling one's life is significant and worth living, and gaining both short-term and long-term purposes. In highlighting these potential consequences of being creative, we get to question clear separations between processes and products in the field of creativity studies and show that engaging in the creative process itself “produces” experiences that are less tangible or even noticeable but by no means unimportant.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143481295","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"From Creative Performance Pressure to Deviance: Understanding the Role of Moral Disengagement and Supervisor Bottom Line Mentality","authors":"Imran Hameed, Faisal Qadeer, Kanwal Zahoor, Irfan Hameed, Mumtaz Ali Memon","doi":"10.1002/jocb.1538","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.1538","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study argues that many renowned organizations depend on their employees' creativity for top industry performance and meeting customer expectations in the current business era of hyper-competition. This study aims to understand the dark side of creative performance pressure (CPP) in the workplace through the lens of moral disengagement theory (MDT). We specifically argue that CPP results in organizational deviance (discretionary behavior that violates organizational norms and threatens the well-being of an organization, its members, or both). Further, we have identified employee moral disengagement (the ability to separate oneself morally from a wrong behavior by cognitively altering the perception of the situation and, therefore, not feeling negative about it) as an underlying mechanism of CPP—organizational deviance relationship and supervisor bottom-line mentality as the boundary condition of this mediated relationship. The data for the study were collected using a self-administered questionnaire through a time-lagged design from full-time employees working in the IT industry in Pakistan. A total of 254 completed responses were used to test the model through confirmatory factor analysis (in AMOS 23) and SPSS Process Macro. The results of the analysis supported the theoretical arguments of MDT and the existing evidence. The results highlighted that CPP leads employees toward organizational deviance through the underlying psychological mechanism of moral disengagement, and this impact is further enhanced in the presence of supervisors who are high in bottom-line mentality. The study makes significant theoretical contributions and suggests policy implications for organizations related to the code of ethics, incentivizing ethical behavior, and open communication.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143481299","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Make or Break? How Positive and Negative Family Experiences Affect Workplace Creativity: The Role of Energy and Mindfulness","authors":"Hui He, Lu Zhao, Beini Liu","doi":"10.1002/jocb.70002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.70002","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Employee creativity is pivotal for organizational innovation, yet studies to date have primarily focused on the impact of individual and work-related characteristics on creativity while neglecting the influence of family factors. Drawing on the work-home resources (W-HR) model, this study aims to explore how positive family experiences such as spousal positive affect and negative experiences such as housework could potentially boost or impede work creativity. Using a multi-wave, multisource survey design, data were collected from 238 employee–spouse–supervisor triads. The findings revealed that spousal positive affect fosters employee work creativity by augmenting energy, whereas housework diminishes work creativity by draining energy. In addition, employee mindfulness enhances the pathway through which spousal positive affect increases work creativity via energy but mitigates the pathway through which housework reduces work creativity. This study enriches our understanding of the crossover impacts of family on work, highlighting the significant role that family factors play in influencing work creativity.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-02-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143481509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Development of Creativity: From Self-to Socially-Referenced","authors":"Denis Dumas","doi":"10.1002/jocb.1517","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.1517","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>How does creativity develop from a nearly ubiquitous and domain-general capacity associated with playfulness and openness to experience to a highly rarified and domain-specific ability associated with invention and innovation? In this short report, I describe creativity along two dimensions: self- and socially referenced creativity. In self-referenced creativity, only the creators themselves judge the novelty and usefulness of an idea, while in socially referenced creativity, others make the judgments. For education to support creativity, it should therefore leverage (not squash) the self-referenced creativity that learners enter schooling with, while simultaneously supporting learners in a transition to more socially referenced creativity within a domain. Based on the psychological characteristics of learners at different points in their academic development, I suggest activities that would be maximally fruitful in the process of developing domain creativity. Because these activities allow learners to engage their self-referenced creativity but also require them to apply their domain knowledge to predict what others in the domain would view as novel or useful, they support the development of socially referenced creativity and exemplify the goals of creative education.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144598779","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Hansika Kapoor, Sarah Rezaei, Hreem Mahadeshwar, James C. Kaufman
{"title":"What Could Go Wrong? Anxiety Fuels, but Optimism Buffers Negative Counterfactual Divergent Thinking","authors":"Hansika Kapoor, Sarah Rezaei, Hreem Mahadeshwar, James C. Kaufman","doi":"10.1002/jocb.1531","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.1531","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Anxiety-driven counterfactual thinking can be a slippery slope. Building on the premise that both positive and negative emotions can impact creativity, the present study examines how trait anxiety, optimism, and other mental health factors like therapy experience shape outputs in divergent thinking (DT) tasks. Using an online sample (<i>N</i> = 647), the study introduces counterfactual DT tasks, where participants are prompted to respond to how a situation can either go in their favor (positive) or against it (negative). Participants generated more original responses in the positive counterfactual DT task versus the negative one; however, they generated a higher number of ideas in the negative task compared to the positive one. Both counterfactual tasks led to higher originality and fluency as compared to a real-world DT task. Trait anxiety, especially when combined with past therapy experience or a previous mental health diagnosis, increased the number of negative counterfactual ideas. In contrast, optimism acted as a protective factor, enabling fewer ideas in the negative counterfactual task when combined with past therapy experience or a past mental health diagnosis. Our study challenges the binary view of emotional influences on creativity, highlighting the role of individual differences and experiences in shaping creative outputs. Diversifying the counterfactual DT tasks and using more refined measures of rumination and mental health history can provide further nuance to this line of research between creativity and anxiety.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144197509","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Bedirhan Gültepe, Cantürk Akben, Ahmet Yasin Şenyurt, Hamit Coskun
{"title":"Variability in the Effects of Mood and Cognitive Stimulation on Creative Generation: A Task-Dependent Perspective","authors":"Bedirhan Gültepe, Cantürk Akben, Ahmet Yasin Şenyurt, Hamit Coskun","doi":"10.1002/jocb.1533","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.1533","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This research comprises two studies investigating the impact of mood and cognitive stimulation on creativity, with a focus on the role of task type. The first study focused on idea generation, whereas the second explored slogan generation, revealing differing outcomes for distinct tasks. Positive and negative moods were induced through memory recall, and cognitive stimulation was manipulated using cue words in varying quantities. In Study 1, participants were tasked with brainstorming about the advantages and disadvantages of having an extra thumb. The initial hypothesis, proposing that a positive mood and cognitive stimulation enhance ideational fluency, was supported through the flexibility pathway. Study 2 shifted the focus to slogan generation, emphasizing originality, which aligns with the nature of slogan generation. The hypothesis was that mood and cognitive stimulation would not impact fluency but might influence originality. Surprisingly, participants in the negative mood condition generated more slogans, challenging the common belief that positive moods consistently boost creativity. Those without cognitive stimulation also performed better in terms of originality, which is in line with past studies indicating that examples can inhibit originality. In conclusion, this study underscores the intricate and context-dependent nature of creativity, advocating for a nuanced approach to creativity studies.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144197244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Artificial Intelligence and the Internal Processes of Creativity","authors":"Jaan Aru","doi":"10.1002/jocb.1530","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.1530","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Artificial intelligence (AI) systems capable of generating creative outputs are reshaping our understanding of creativity. This shift presents an opportunity for creativity researchers to reevaluate the key components of the creative process. In particular, the advanced capabilities of AI underscore the importance of studying the internal processes of creativity. This paper explores the neurobiological machinery that underlies these internal processes and describes the experiential component of creativity. It is concluded that although the products of artificial and human creativity can be similar, the internal processes are different. The paper also discusses how AI may negatively affect the internal processes of human creativity, such as the development of skills, the authenticity of creativity, and the diversity of ideas.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144197254","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Paula Álvarez-Huerta, Alexander Muela, Inaki Larrea
{"title":"Longitudinal Analysis of Creative and Entrepreneurial Self-Efficacy in Undergraduates","authors":"Paula Álvarez-Huerta, Alexander Muela, Inaki Larrea","doi":"10.1002/jocb.1532","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.1532","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Creativity and entrepreneurship are fundamental to the personal and professional development of new generations and for social progress in general. The primary aim of this study was to analyze changes in the creative and entrepreneurial self-efficacy of undergraduates as they progress through university, and to examine whether these trajectories are influenced by gender. We also explored the impact of engagement on students' creative and entrepreneurial self-efficacy. The sample comprised 200 undergraduates attending a Spanish university, all of whom completed various measures in Years 1 and 4 of their degree program. Results showed an increase in creative self-efficacy over time, but no change in entrepreneurial self-efficacy. Gender had no effect on these trajectories. Two dimensions of student engagement were found to be associated with an increase in both creative and entrepreneurial self-efficacy by the end of undergraduate study. From a practical point of view, the findings suggest the need to promote learning experiences involving participation in high-impact practices and reflective and integrative learning.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144197253","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xinpei Xu, Yu Chen, Xiaolin Ye, Jinghui Zhang, Jinxin Luan, Yan Li
{"title":"Creativity: Exploring Factor Structure of the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking in Chinese Preschoolers","authors":"Xinpei Xu, Yu Chen, Xiaolin Ye, Jinghui Zhang, Jinxin Luan, Yan Li","doi":"10.1002/jocb.1529","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jocb.1529","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>This study investigated the structural exploration of creativity in Chinese preschoolers using the Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking-Figural (TTCT-Figural). The participants were 256 children aged 4–6 from a public kindergarten in Shanghai, with an average age of 4.79 years (SD = 0.63). Building upon prior research and integrating Kirton's Adaptive-Innovative theory, this study examined both single-factor and two-factor models. The results indicated that the superiority of the two-factor models over the single-factor model, with optimal fit indicating fluency and originality loading on the innovative factor and elaboration, abstractness of titles, and creative strengths loaded on the adaptive factor. Resistance to premature closure was found to load on both adaptive and innovative factors. Gender invariance analysis indicated no significant differences between boys and girls, highlighting the consistency of the creativity construct regardless of gender. The confirmatory factor analyses underscored the efficacy of the two-factor model, offering valuable insights into the creative thinking processes of Chinese preschoolers assessed through TTCT-Figural. These findings enhance our understanding of creativity in early childhood education, emphasizing the significance of gender-neutral creativity evaluations at this developmental stage.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":39915,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Creative Behavior","volume":"59 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144598480","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"心理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}