Abstract
ABSTRACT Emotional creativity (EC) is a pattern of cognitive abilities and personality traits related to originality and appropriateness in emotional experience. EC has been found to be related to various constructs across different fields of psychology during the past 30 years, but a comprehensive examination of previous research is still lacking. The goal of this review is to explore the reliability of use of the Emotional Creativity Inventory (ECI) across studies, to test gender differences and to compare levels of EC in different countries. Thirty-five empirical studies focused on EC were retrieved and the coefficients required for the meta-analysis extracted. The meta-analysis revealed that women showed significantly higher EC than men (total N = 3,555). The same gender differences were also found when testing scores from three ECI subscales, i.e. emotional novelty, emotional preparedness and emotional effectiveness/authenticity. When comparing EC in 10 different countries (total N = 4,375), several cross-cultural differences were revealed. The Chinese sample showed a significantly lower average ECI total score than all the other countries. Based on the integration of results, the avenues for future research on EC and the breadth of influence of the concept of EC across different fields of psychology are discussed.
Highlights
MeSH Headings: Emotions, Creativity, Affect, Affective Symptoms, Gender, Sex, Gender Identity, Cross-Cultural Comparison, Transcultural Studies, Temperament, Extraversion, Neuroticism, Anhedonia, Creativeness, Cognition, Cognitive Function, Artistic Creativity, Creative Ability, Creative Thinking
Emotional creativity (EC) is a pattern of cognitive abilities and personality traits related to originality and appropriateness in emotional experience (Averill, 1999; Ivcevic, Brackett, & Mayer, 2007)
The important feature of EC is a divergence from the ordinary emotional experience, because it involves the cognitive abilities that enable cognition to diverge from common and generate novel emotional reactions (Ivcevic et al, 2007; Trnka, Cabelkova, Kuška, & Nikolai, 2019)
Summary
MeSH Headings: Emotions, Creativity, Affect, Affective Symptoms, Gender, Sex, Gender Identity, Cross-Cultural Comparison, Transcultural Studies, Temperament, Extraversion, Neuroticism, Anhedonia, Creativeness, Cognition, Cognitive Function, Artistic Creativity, Creative Ability, Creative Thinking. Emotional creativity (EC) is a pattern of cognitive abilities and personality traits related to originality and appropriateness in emotional experience (Averill, 1999; Ivcevic, Brackett, & Mayer, 2007). It significantly pervades human creative performance, because it involves one’s ability to connect with the reasons for and consequences of emotional responses at the preparation stage of the creative process as well as to experience and express novel emotions at the verification stage of the creative process (Averill, 1999; Soroa, Gorostiaga, Aritzeta, & Balluerka, 2015). The present review aims to summarize the existing empirical evidence that includes EC and to integrate recent knowledge on EC into a comprehensive framework
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