Creativity Could Boost Emotional Well being. Agree?

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    • Publish Date: Nov 30 2016 12:24PM
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    • Updated Date: Nov 30 2016 12:24PM
Creativity Could Boost Emotional Well being. Agree?

 

Adult colouring books are quite the rage these days and according to therapists, these help one relax and unwind. A recent study has found that everyday creative activity may lead to an "upward spiral" of increased wellbeing and creativity in young adults.

In the new research from New Zealand University, Department of Psychology, led by Dr Tamlin Conner, researchers asked 658 university students to keep a daily diary of their experiences and emotional states over 13 days.

After analysing the diaries of the researchers, Dr Tamlin Conner found a pattern of participants feeling more enthusiasm and higher "flourishing" than usual, following days when they were more creative.Flourishing is a psychological concept that can be described as increasing positive growth in oneself. While the current study did not specifically ask the university students to record the nature of their creative activity, the researchers had collected such information informally in an earlier study.


They found that the most common examples reported were songwriting, creative writing (poetry, short fiction), knitting and crochet, making new recipes, painting, drawing, and sketching, graphic and digital design, and musical performance.
Dr Conner says she and her team wanted to find out if engaging in everyday creative acts makes people feel better emotionally.
"There is growing recognition in psychology research that creativity is associated with emotional functioning. However, most of this work focuses on how emotions benefit or hamper creativity, not whether creativity benefits or hampers emotional well being," Dr Conner says.

The researchers found that "positive affect" (PA) -- which encompasses feelings such as pleasurable engagement, happiness, joy, excitement, and enthusiasm -- on a particular day did not predict next-day creative activity.

"Our earlier research found that PA appears to increase creativity during the same day, but our latest findings show that there is no cross-day effect. Rather, it is creative activity on the previous day that predicts wellbeing the next," she says.
Even when controlling for next-day creative activity, the previous day's creativity significantly predicted energised PA and flourishing. Dr Conner and her co-authors write that: "this finding suggests a particular kind of upward spiral for wellbeing and creativity. Engaging in creative behavior leads to increases in wellbeing the next day, and this increased wellbeing is likely to facilitate creative activity on the same day. They conclude that "overall, these findings support the emerging emphasis on everyday creativity as a means of cultivating positive psychological functioning."
 


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ROSHAN HASMUKHBHAI PARMAR PRAGATI ENGLISH PRIMARY SCHOOL

YES I Think Creativity Boosts Emotional Health.......

Bhavana Jaison Atomic Energy Central School No 2

Yes, creativity can help you to be emotionally strong and vent out your negativity.

MANAS KUMAR BAL BHARTI PUBLIC SCHOOL (PITAM PUR

Yes creativity boosts one''s emotional well being by increasing self confidence and positivity towards life. It fills one with enthusiasm and high spirits. When I do some creative writing I feel rejuvenated and joyful with optimism.

Vishakha Bhalla BOSCO SR.SEC.SCHOOL( PASCHIM VIHAR)

Young adults are extremely confused and busy, so in such hustled lives they need to carry some creative activities which can boost up their mood and emotional health.

Aishwarya Iyer Deens Academy

Yes, it ceratinly does.

Nishi Upadhyay BHARTI PUBLIC SCHOOL (SWASTHYA VHR)

yes as it opens the windows of our mind.

Aditi Sahi D C MODEL SCH PKL-SEC-7

yes,it surely does

Kashish Verma Bharti Public School Swasthya Vihar

Creativity, definitely boosts up the emotional health as it makes our mind work in a different direction and enhances our imagination.

Aadrit Banerjee Apeejay School Salt Lake

Yes absolutely it does. When one is creative one feels emotionally charged up and strong. The amalgamation of creative thoughts thus boosts emotional health and makes an individual happy.....creativity adds zeal and colour to life.

Yashita Nagpal BHARTI PUBLIC SCHOOL (SWASTHYA VHR)

Ceativity boosts one''s self confidence and improves the mental health of the person.

B. Tulasitharini Amalorpavam Higher Secondary School - Puducherry

Yes . Creativity does it

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