TY - JOUR
T1 - Effects of Creative Thinking and Its Personality Determinants on Negative Emotion Regulation
AU - Chiu, Fa Chung
AU - Hsu, Chih Chun
AU - Lin, Yao Nan
AU - Liu, Cheng Hong
AU - Chen, Hsueh Chih
AU - Lin, Chi Hsiang
PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - This study investigated the relationship between creativity and negative emotion, and the effects of integrating creative insight into the reappraisal process on negative emotions. In Study 1, participants’ creativity and baseline anxiety levels were measured; then anxiety was induced, and anxiety levels were reassessed. In Study 2, participants wrote about past negative events and then completed the positive and negative affect schedule. They were split into three groups (insight reappraisal, simple reappraisal, or control groups); each of them received a separate intervention, and then they completed positive and negative affect schedule again. In Study 3, participants were randomly assigned to insight reappraisal or control groups; apart from measuring cognitive changes, the procedures were identical to Study 2. All participants were undergraduate students. Results showed that flexibility, originality, risk-taking, and complexity are negatively correlated with anxiety, and that insight reappraisal can induce insight experience and enhance cognitive changes, and reduce negative emotional responses. Therefore, integrating creative insight into the reappraisal process can enhance its effectiveness in reducing negative emotions.
AB - This study investigated the relationship between creativity and negative emotion, and the effects of integrating creative insight into the reappraisal process on negative emotions. In Study 1, participants’ creativity and baseline anxiety levels were measured; then anxiety was induced, and anxiety levels were reassessed. In Study 2, participants wrote about past negative events and then completed the positive and negative affect schedule. They were split into three groups (insight reappraisal, simple reappraisal, or control groups); each of them received a separate intervention, and then they completed positive and negative affect schedule again. In Study 3, participants were randomly assigned to insight reappraisal or control groups; apart from measuring cognitive changes, the procedures were identical to Study 2. All participants were undergraduate students. Results showed that flexibility, originality, risk-taking, and complexity are negatively correlated with anxiety, and that insight reappraisal can induce insight experience and enhance cognitive changes, and reduce negative emotional responses. Therefore, integrating creative insight into the reappraisal process can enhance its effectiveness in reducing negative emotions.
KW - Anxiety
KW - creative tendency
KW - divergent thinking
KW - insight experience
KW - reappraisal
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U2 - 10.1177/0033294118775973
DO - 10.1177/0033294118775973
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85048060455
VL - 122
SP - 916
EP - 943
JO - Psychological Reports
JF - Psychological Reports
SN - 0033-2941
IS - 3
ER -