Abstract
Purpose: This study used a moderated mediation model to test the mediating effect of general self-efficacy on the relationship between post-traumatic growth (PTG) and creativity and the moderating effect of deliberate rumination in the second path of the indirect mediation path during the COVID-19 pandemic.Methods: A sample of 881 university students from Guangdong Province, China, was surveyed with the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory, the Runco Ideational Behavior Scale, the General Self-Efficacy Scale, and the Deliberate Rumination Inventory. SPSS (23 version) and PROCESS (3.3 version) were used for correlation analyses, mediation analysis, and moderated mediation analysis.Results: (1) PTG was positively correlated with creativity, self-efficacy, and deliberate rumination. Creativity was positively correlated with self-efficacy and deliberate rumination. Deliberate rumination was positively correlated with self-efficacy. (2) Self-efficacy mediated the relationship between PTG and creativity. (3) Deliberate rumination moderated the second half of the path of “PTG → self-efficacy → creativity.”Conclusions: PTG affected creativity directly and also indirectly through self-efficacy. In particular, deliberate rumination moderated the relationship between self-efficacy and creativity, such that the association was stronger when the incidence of deliberate rumination was low. These results provide a more comprehensive understanding of the positive link between PTG and creativity.
Highlights
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) spread rapidly and widely worldwide, which had a significant impact on people’s lives (Zhao et al, 2020)
In order to enhance the understanding of the changes in creativity of college students during the COVID-19 pandemic, this study explored the relationship between post-traumatic growth (PTG) and creativity among college students during that period as well as the mediating role of self-efficacy and the moderating role of deliberate rumination
The PTG of participating college students was significantly and positively correlated with general self-efficacy (r = 0.466, p < 0.01) and creativity (r = 0.434, p < 0.01). Their general self-efficacy was positively correlated with creativity (r = 0.475, p < 0.01) and deliberate rumination (r = 0.216, p < 0.01)
Summary
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) spread rapidly and widely worldwide, which had a significant impact on people’s lives (Zhao et al, 2020). Pandemics and government-mandated measures of quarantine and isolation defined as lockdown have an impact on mental health of general population (Brooks et al, 2020). People suffered from depression, anxiety, insomnia, stress, addiction symptoms, and the persistence of avoidance behaviors due to infection fears, reduced social activities, loss of accessibility to basic necessities, and financial loss during the pandemics (Brooks et al, 2020; Rossi et al, 2020; Grignoli et al, 2021). It is essential to understand people’s automatic coping mechanisms in order to respond effectively to the intense stress caused by a pandemic (Di Giuseppe et al, 2020)
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