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Creativity as a Means to Well-Being in Times of COVID-19 Pandemic: Results of a Cross-Cultural Study
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has brought about unprecedented uncertainty and challenges to the worldwide economy and people’s everyday life. Anecdotal and scientific evidence has documented the existence of a positive relationship between the experience of crisis and creativity....
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7985536/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33767644 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.601389 |
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author | Tang, Min Hofreiter, Sebastian Reiter-Palmon, Roni Bai, Xinwen Murugavel, Vignesh |
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description | The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has brought about unprecedented uncertainty and challenges to the worldwide economy and people’s everyday life. Anecdotal and scientific evidence has documented the existence of a positive relationship between the experience of crisis and creativity. Though this appears to be ubiquitous, the crisis-creativity-well-being relationship has not been sufficiently examined across countries and using a working adult sample. The current study drew on a sample consisting of 1,420 employees from China (n = 489, 40% females), Germany (n = 599, 47% females), and the United States (n = 332, 43% females) to examine whether creativity can function as an effective means to cope with crisis and to achieve both flourishing and social well-being. Multivariate analyses showed that perceived impact of COVID-19 was positively related to creative process engagement, which was positively related to employees’ self-reported creative growth. Creative growth was associated with a higher level of flourishing well-being. This sequential mediation model was significant across the three samples. Creativity also mediated the relationship between perceived impact of COVID-19 and social well-being (social connectedness), but this connection was only found for the Chinese sample. Further data analyses revealed that individualism moderated this serial mediation model in that the positive coping effect of creativity on both flourishing and social well-being was stronger for individuals who hold more collectivistic views. Results of the study have implications for crisis management, personal development, and positive functioning of individuals and society. |
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spelling | pubmed-79855362021-03-24 Creativity as a Means to Well-Being in Times of COVID-19 Pandemic: Results of a Cross-Cultural Study Tang, Min Hofreiter, Sebastian Reiter-Palmon, Roni Bai, Xinwen Murugavel, Vignesh Front Psychol Psychology The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has brought about unprecedented uncertainty and challenges to the worldwide economy and people’s everyday life. Anecdotal and scientific evidence has documented the existence of a positive relationship between the experience of crisis and creativity. Though this appears to be ubiquitous, the crisis-creativity-well-being relationship has not been sufficiently examined across countries and using a working adult sample. The current study drew on a sample consisting of 1,420 employees from China (n = 489, 40% females), Germany (n = 599, 47% females), and the United States (n = 332, 43% females) to examine whether creativity can function as an effective means to cope with crisis and to achieve both flourishing and social well-being. Multivariate analyses showed that perceived impact of COVID-19 was positively related to creative process engagement, which was positively related to employees’ self-reported creative growth. Creative growth was associated with a higher level of flourishing well-being. This sequential mediation model was significant across the three samples. Creativity also mediated the relationship between perceived impact of COVID-19 and social well-being (social connectedness), but this connection was only found for the Chinese sample. Further data analyses revealed that individualism moderated this serial mediation model in that the positive coping effect of creativity on both flourishing and social well-being was stronger for individuals who hold more collectivistic views. Results of the study have implications for crisis management, personal development, and positive functioning of individuals and society. Frontiers Media S.A. 2021-03-09 /pmc/articles/PMC7985536/ /pubmed/33767644 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.601389 Text en Copyright © 2021 Tang, Hofreiter, Reiter-Palmon, Bai and Murugavel. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms. |
spellingShingle | Psychology Tang, Min Hofreiter, Sebastian Reiter-Palmon, Roni Bai, Xinwen Murugavel, Vignesh Creativity as a Means to Well-Being in Times of COVID-19 Pandemic: Results of a Cross-Cultural Study |
title | Creativity as a Means to Well-Being in Times of COVID-19 Pandemic: Results of a Cross-Cultural Study |
title_full | Creativity as a Means to Well-Being in Times of COVID-19 Pandemic: Results of a Cross-Cultural Study |
title_fullStr | Creativity as a Means to Well-Being in Times of COVID-19 Pandemic: Results of a Cross-Cultural Study |
title_full_unstemmed | Creativity as a Means to Well-Being in Times of COVID-19 Pandemic: Results of a Cross-Cultural Study |
title_short | Creativity as a Means to Well-Being in Times of COVID-19 Pandemic: Results of a Cross-Cultural Study |
title_sort | creativity as a means to well-being in times of covid-19 pandemic: results of a cross-cultural study |
topic | Psychology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7985536/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33767644 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.601389 |
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