Creation Of Benefits Research Articles

Creativity in Second Language Learning and Use: Theoretical Foundations and Practical Implications. A Literature Review

This paper is a comprehensive literature review of the role of creativity in second language (L2) learning and use. It seeks to provide a theoretical background of the concept of creativity and show its practical relevance in the L2 context. The article begins with the conceptualisations of general creativity and narrows down to the concept of linguistic creativity and its instances in L2 use. Next, it presents the empirical research findings that point to an important role and benefits of creativity in L2 learning and use. The paper closes with pedagogical implications and methodological guidelines on enhancing creativity in the L2 classroom.

Pengembangan Kreativitas Sebagai Pembentukan Karakter Anak Usia Dini

Mayesty (1990) states that creativity is a way of thinking and acting or creating something original and valuable/useful for that person and others. Creativity according to Santrock (2002) is the ability to think about things in new and unusual ways and give birth to a unique solution to the problems encountered. In line with what was stated by Gallagher (in Munandar, 1999) revealed that creativity is related to the ability to create, organize, find a new form and or to produce something through imaginative skills, this means that creativity is related to the experience of expressing and actualizing individual identity in the form of integrated in relationship with oneself, with nature and with others. Creativity is a product of ideas or solutions that are new and useful. According to Munandar (2002) one of the benefits of creativity is that it can improve the quality of life and solve problems from various points of view, therefore creativity is important to be honed from an early age, so that it becomes an inherent character in children. In relation to the formation of the character of early childhood, we can see together that the character of the Indonesian nation has deviated a lot from norms, both legal norms, social norms, and even religious norms. People today are experiencing a crisis that has such a great impact on civilization, namely the crisis of character. Seeing this fact, the initial foundation for the realization of a character that fits the profile of Pancasila must be developed from an early age. Through the development of creativity, it is hoped that the formation of character in children can be done from an early age. Character education was chosen as an effort to realize the character formation of students or the nation's generation of noble character. This study uses a qualitative research type with reference to descriptive analysis from various relevant sources as well as a study of research results that raise the theme of the relationship between creativity development in developing the character of early childhood. The type of study used is literature study by collecting information from books, journals, discussion of articles and others. From the results of this study, it is known that the development of creativity in early childhood has a very good impact on the character development process.

The influence of natural environments on creativity.

This study investigated the effects of different natural environments on attention restoration and creativity. To compare the restorative benefits based on the degrees of perceived naturalness in urban areas, this study categorized environments into three types of perceived naturalness and tested the effect on one's creativity. The urban campus was selected as the study site, representing high-, medium-, and low-perceived naturalness photosets downloaded from Google Street Map images as experimental stimuli. The study invited 100 subjects to take the Abbreviated Torrance Test for Adults (ATTA), which measures creative thinking by viewing the onscreen photosets of the experimental stimuli. In addition, this study asked participants to complete the Perceived Restoration Scale (PRS) questionnaires. The results showed that high- and medium-perceived naturalness in the urban-campus site was superior to low-perceived naturalness in creative performance. In addition, there were significant differences in elaboration and flexibility for different degrees of perceived naturalness. Various degrees of perceived naturalness showed a substantial correlation between PRS scores and ATTA scores. The attention restoration benefits of high- and medium-naturalness environments improve creativity. Our study indicates that viewing natural environments stimulates curiosity and fosters flexibility and imagination, highly natural environments distract our minds from work, and the benefits of attention restoration can improve the uniqueness and diversity of creative ideas. This study provides a reference for creative environmental design and supports further understanding of nature's health and creativity benefits in urban areas.

Does Role Stress Explain the Relationship between Adult Attention Deficit and the Operational Performance of Project Managers?

Research suggests that adult attention related disorders and stress cost the US economy approximately $400 billion of lost productivity per annum. This study examines the mediating influence of role stress (RS) on the relationship between adult attention deficit (AAD) and the operational effectiveness of project managers (OEPM). One hundred and twenty actively employed business graduate students each had the opportunity to be a project manager within a project team. Each team member rated the others on their OEPM, completed a self-report measure of RS, and identified a close associate who completed an observer version of the Brown Attention Deficit Scale. Product moment correlations were used to test the hypotheses that AAD, RS and OEPM were associated, and both the Hayes Process and Sobel tests were used to test the hypothesis that RS mediates the relationship between AAD and OEPM. AAD has a positive association with RS and a negative association with OEPM. RS has a negative association with OEPM. RS partially mediates the relationship between AAD and OEPM. Organizations wanting to ensure timely and successful completion of projects need to be aware of the constraining influence of AAD on OEPM and the mediating influence of RS. Interventions and resources that assist disordered project managers to better manage attention challenges, role stress, and the operational aspects of project management may help retain the creative benefits of the disorder while managing the associated operational challenges.

Defining and understanding the notion of creativity in business: an employee perspective from sales industry in Dubai, UAE

This paper looks at the value and benefits of creativity in the workplace, with insights from a participant who runs a start-up hair product company. By doing a case study on a specific firm, the goal of this paper is to acquire a comprehensive understanding of what creativity is and its vital application or impact in management. It also analysed the importance of creativity at an organizational and individual level using data gathered from a sales manager from Dubai Duty Free Airport, UAE. This study utilised qualitative case study method to collect data to fulfil the aim of having in-depth knowledge of the concept as well as to examine the significance and effect of creativity at an organizational level. The researchers gathered the primary data through an in-depth interview with the participant. The thematic content analysis method is utilised to analyse the obtained data. This study concludes that creativity is applied to create value for customers. As mentioned by the interviewee, a personalized approach should be considered for every customer to ensure that their specified needs are achieved.

Social benefits and individual costs of creativity in art and science: A statistical analysis based on a theoretical framework.

In this study, we statistically identified and characterized the relationship between the long-run social benefits of creativity and the in-life individual costs (in terms of happiness and health) of creativity. To do so, we referred to a theoretical framework that depicts a creator’s life. We generated a balanced dataset of 200 creators (i.e., composers, painters, mathematicians and physicists, and biologists and chemists born between 1770 and 1879), and calculated standardized evaluations of the long-run social benefits in different domains (performances, exhibitions, citations). We performed regression analysis and identified the statistical determinants of the relationship between a creator’s social benefits and the costs to their happiness and health. We found that creativity represented an individual cost for all four creator groups, with a larger impact on happiness than on health; the cost was greater if creativity was based more on divergent than on convergent thinking or if authors faced greater language issues. The impacts of long-run social benefits on individual happiness and health were similar in the arts and sciences if institutional differences were taken into account.

Creative students in self-paced online learning environments: an experimental exploration of the interaction of visual design and creativity

Creativity is an increasingly recognized construct in technology-enhanced learning. However, our understanding of how creativity interacts with the design of online learning environments to affect learning experiences is still limited. For example, do creative students benefit from different learning environment designs than those benefitting their less creative peers? This experimental study (N = 187) explores this question by investigating the visual design of a self-paced online learning environment, specifically the degree of visual structure, in relation to students' creativity. Creativity was measured in different ways, along the lines of vocational/study choice, self-reported personality and behavior, and creative production. Students were randomly assigned to either a visually unstructured (experimental group) or a visually highly structured (control group) learning environment. They reported their preference, impulse for activation, and situational motivation after the learning experience. Results indicate interaction effects consistent with the role of creativity in perception and learning. More specifically, creative students reported more motivation after learning in an unstructured environment, whereas non-creative students reported relatively better learning experiences in the highly structured condition. These results contribute to resolving previous conflicting findings from separated studies, yet some ambiguities remain. Results and implications are discussed, and recommendations for future research are laid out.

Managing the trade-off between autonomy and task interdependence in creative teams: The role of organizational-level cultural control

In the creative industries, creative output is often produced in temporary project teams, staffed with employees from within the organization. In this study we make two main contributions regarding the management of creative performance in such teams. First, we provide evidence for a fundamental trade-off inherent in creative teamwork. Team creativity benefits both from high team member autonomy and high task interdependence, but when team leaders give higher autonomy to team members then this undermines the positive effect of a more interdependent design of teamwork on team creativity, and vice versa. Second, we argue that cultural control at the organizational level is an effective means to resolve this team-level trade-off and to enable teams to leverage both high autonomy and high task interdependence for higher team creativity. We test our hypotheses using survey data collected at three different organizational levels (team members, team leaders, and agency heads) from 372 individuals of 101 temporary project teams within 53 advertising agencies, and find evidence consistent with our predictions.

Does depletion have a bright side? Self‐regulation exertion heightens creative engagement

AbstractResource‐based theories posit that exerting self‐control to regulate one's thoughts, feelings, and behaviors depletes people's available self‐regulatory resources, leaving them depleted and less able to exert self‐control in subsequent activities. Although the detrimental effects of depletion are well‐established, we challenge this prevailing view by proposing that depletion can have unexpected beneficial effects. Across multiple studies, our current research provides evidence that depletion shifts consumers' attention on benefits of creativity, and in turn influences their subsequent creative engagement. Specifically, we found that depletion increases consumers' persistence in creative activity, and this beneficial effect of depletion on creative engagement is explained by their attention on benefits of creativity. Furthermore, we explore a boundary conditions of this depletion‐creative engagement effect by demonstrating that the effect could be attenuated for individuals who are not open to new experiences.

Revitalizing the communication classroom: A case of design thinking

ABSTRACT Originally developed in the field of design, design thinking is widely used as a pedagogical tool to help non-designer students cultivate creative thinking and problem-solving skills. Despite its positive effects on student learning via increased motivation, openness to new ideas, and creative thinking, the understanding of design thinking is limited in the field of communication. Using an exploratory case-study methodology, this study aims to examine the effects of using design thinking on students’ learning experience in the communication classroom. The thematic analysis of student self-reflection essays revealed that students had very positive experiences with the design-thinking framework. More specifically, design thinking provided students with a toolkit for creative problem solving, helped students create practical knowledge, and allowed them to engage in deeper learning and harness the benefits of collaborative creativity. The findings are discussed to advance pedagogical implications for integrating design thinking as a creative learning tool in the instruction of communication classes in higher education.

Pemanfaatan Limbah Sampah Anorganik dari Kaleng Bekas sebagai Peluang Usaha di Pahandut Seberang Kota Palangka Raya

Creativity is a process that demands balance and application of the three essential aspects, namely analyst intelligence, creativity and practice. One of the benefits of creativity is that it eliminates what everyone doesn't like, namely problems. Creativity that exists in the individual can build business opportunities. Business opportunity is an application that consists of creativity and innovation to solve problems and see the opportunities faced every day. In this service program, what is being carried out is training to increase the creativity of Kertanel handicrafts (KERTANEL). The approach method used is Asset Based Community Development (ABCD). The concept of Asset Based Community Development or the term “ABCD” is one strategy in carrying out community development. In the concept of empowerment, the community that is the target of empowerment is no longer called a weak group and does not have any potential. On the contrary, the community is seen as a group that actually has the potential to get out of various problems, including the problem of improving the standard of living, socio-economy.

Feeling differently, creating together: Affect heterogeneity and creativity in project teams

SummaryDifferently valenced affective states stimulate different information search and processing styles. Dual‐tuning theory suggests that in combination, the styles tuned by positive affect (broad information search and flexible thinking) and by negative affect (persistent detailed search and critical thinking) facilitate creativity better than a single affect alone. Through this lens, we argue that the simultaneous presence of team members experiencing differently valenced affective states (affect heterogeneity) may facilitate team creativity by providing access to more varied information and perspectives. To extract creative benefit from these enhanced informational resources, teams must engage in an information exchange and elaboration process. However, affect heterogeneity may also threaten this process. We suggest that effective information exchange and elaboration is more likely to occur when the team has a well‐developed transactive memory system to legitimize and coordinate the differences flowing from affect heterogeneity among members. We tested our hypotheses among 59 teams in a within‐team design in which we measured team affect heterogeneity, information exchange and elaboration, and creativity in each of 4 weeks of a 13‐week project. Results supported our hypotheses, including the mediating role of information exchange and elaboration, and the moderating role of team transactive memory system.

CREATIVITY AND ITS ASSOCIATION WITH MINDFULNESS, EMOTIONS REGULATION, AND PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL-BEING IN ADOLESCENTS

Purpose of the study: This study aims to investigate the relationship of creativity to mindfulness, emotion regulation, and psychological well-being among adolescents.
 Methodology: The cross-sectional and correlational study used purposive convenient sampling, and collected data from 600 adolescents aged 15 to 24. The data collection was conducted in colleges and universities using English as the medium of instruction. For this purpose, the scales used were the Kaufman Domains of Creativity scale (Kaufman, 2012), the Mindfulness Attention Awareness Scale (Brown & Ryan, 2003), the Emotion regulation questionnaire (Gross & John, 2003), and Ryff Psychological Wellbeing (Ryff et al., 2007). Data was analyzed using SPSS-26. 
 Main Findings: The study found that creativity is not related to any other variable. However, mindfulness is positively linked to emotion regulation and psychological well-being, and emotion regulation is positively linked to psychological well-being. There were significant gender differences in creativity and emotion regulation, with males scoring higher, but no significant gender differences in mindfulness and psychological well-being.
 Applications of the study: This study on adolescents' creativity and its relationship with mindfulness, emotion regulation, and psychological well-being has applications in education, mental health interventions, parenting, youth development, policy, and further research. It can inform interventions, programs, and policies aimed at fostering creativity, promoting well-being, and supporting adolescent development.
 Novelty/Originality of the study: This study investigates the relationship between creativity, mindfulness, emotional regulation, and psychological well-being in adolescents. It focuses on the inherent traits of mindfulness and explores the benefits of instant creativity, specifically divergent thinking. The study aims to understand how everyday creativity relates to mindfulness, emotional regulation, and well-being, with a focus on gender differences. The findings could contribute to promoting well-being and creativity in adolescents.

No Evidence of Creative Benefit Accompanying Dyslexia: A Meta-Analysis

Research on the question of creative benefit accompanying dyslexia has produced conflicting findings. In this meta-analysis, we determined summary effects of mean and variance differences in creativity between groups with and without dyslexia. Twenty studies were included (n = 770 individuals with dyslexia, n = 1,671 controls). A random-effects robust variance estimation (RVE) analysis indicated no mean (g = −0.02, p = .84) or variance (g = −0.0004, p = .99) differences in creativity between groups. The mean summary effect was moderated by age, gender, and creativity domain. Compared with adolescents, adults with dyslexia showed an advantage over nondyslexic adults in creativity. In addition, a higher proportion of males in the dyslexia group was associated with poorer performance compared with the controls. Finally, the dyslexia group showed a significant performance disadvantage in verbal versus figural creativity. Regarding variance differences, they varied across age and creativity domains. Compared with adults, adolescents showed smaller variability in the dyslexia group. If the creativity task measured verbal versus figural or combined creativity, the dyslexia group exhibited smaller variability. Altogether, our results suggest that individuals with dyslexia as a group are no more creative or show greater variability in creativity than peers without dyslexia.

Kūrybiškumo taikymas Klaipėdos organizacijų veikloje

Creativity in organizations has always been important, but in the twenty-first century, it is becoming object of interest among scientists in the field of management. The article discusses the essence of creativity and its benefits to organizations. Although researchers of various fields, including management, emphasize the benefits of creativity in everyday activities, but the skeptical view, that creativity can be applied only in art and not in everyday activities, still persist. This paper analyzes the scientific problem that is the lack of application of creativity in organizations. The object of research is application of creativity. The purpose of article is to research the applicability of creativity in organization through the analysis of the concept of creativity and its benefits to organizations. Objectives are to identify the benefits of creativity to the organization and to reveal the practice of application of creativity in Klaipeda organizations. In the analysis of the scientific literature, these techniques have been applied: systematic and logical analysis, comparative analysis, graphical representation. A qualitative research method of semi-structured interview has been used for empirical research. In order to determine the application of creativity in real life, the qualitative exploratory study has been performed. Semi-structured interview with experts has been selected. Experts – managers of various small and medium organizations – have been invited to participate in this research. The study has been conducted in April 2014 in Klaipeda. The aim was to involve managers-experts from different sectors (services, manufacturing, marketing or educational areas) in order to be able to discern certain trends or directions depending on the organization or the organization’ size or even a different leadership experience. Management experience of experts is very diverse, from 1 year to 36 years. The study found out that although experts have identified unambiguously that creativity is essential in our daily work, it appears that its application possibilities are not exhausted in practice and most have not showed interest or practical application of a variety of creative methods. Experts do not apply creative approaches in their work, they feel instinctively how to behave or to show creativity, but in reality, it is a serious theoretical gap. The results suggest that the development of creativity is yet neglected because neither managers nor employees are encouraged for creative solutions. KEYWORDS: creativity, organization, application of creativity. JEL CODES: M10, M12, M14 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15181/rfds.v13i2.831

The Creative and Cross-Functional Benefits of Wearing Hearts on Sleeves: Authentic Affect Climate, Information Elaboration, and Team Creativity

Team creative processes of generating and elaborating ideas tend to be laden with emotional expressions and communication. Yet, there is a noticeable lack of theory on how differences in teams’ management and support of affect expressions influence their ability to produce creative outcomes. We investigate why and when team authentic affect climates, which encourage members to share and respond to authentic affect, generate greater creativity compared with more constrained affect climates where members suppress or hide their genuine feelings. We propose that authentic affect climate enhances team creativity through greater information elaboration by the team and that these informational and creative benefits are more likely in functionally diverse teams. Results from three complementary studies—one multisource field study of management teams and two experiments—provide support for our predictions. In our experiments, we also examine the theorized affective mechanisms and find that authentic affect climate increases information elaboration and creativity through members’ affect expressions (Study 2) and empathic responses to each other’s expressed affect (Studies 2 and 3). We discuss the implications of our findings for the team creativity, diversity, and affect literatures.

Networks, Creativity, and Time: Staying Creative through Brokerage and Network Rejuvenation

AbstractIn this paper, we adopt a dynamic perspective on networks and creativity to propose that the oft-theorized creative benefits of open networks and heterogeneous content are less likely to be...

Designing Deep Reinforcement Learning for Human Parameter Exploration

Software tools for generating digital sound often present users with high-dimensional, parametric interfaces, that may not facilitate exploration of diverse sound designs. In this article, we propose to investigate artificial agents using deep reinforcement learning to explore parameter spaces in partnership with users for sound design. We describe a series of user-centred studies to probe the creative benefits of these agents and adapting their design to exploration. Preliminary studies observing users’ exploration strategies with parametric interfaces and testing different agent exploration behaviours led to the design of a fully-functioning prototype, called Co-Explorer, that we evaluated in a workshop with professional sound designers. We found that the Co-Explorer enables a novel creative workflow centred on human–machine partnership, which has been positively received by practitioners. We also highlight varied user exploration behaviours throughout partnering with our system. Finally, we frame design guidelines for enabling such co-exploration workflow in creative digital applications.

Networks, Creativity, and Time: Staying Creative through Brokerage and Network Rejuvenation

In this paper we adopt a dynamic perspective on networks and creativity to propose that the oft-theorized creative benefits of open networks and heterogeneous content are less likely to be accrued over time if the network is stable. Specifically, we hypothesize that open networks and content heterogeneity will have a more positive effect on creativity when network stability is low. We base our prediction on the fact that over time network stability begets cognitive rigidity and social rigidity, thus limiting individuals’ ability to make use of the creative advantages provided by open networks and heterogeneous content. On the contrary, new ties bring a positive “shock” that pushes individuals in the network to change the way they organize and process knowledge, as well as the way they interact and collaborate – a shock that enables creators to accrue the creative advantages provided by open network structures and heterogeneous content. We test and find support for our theory in a study on the core artists who worked on the TV series Doctor Who between 1963 and 2014.

CREATIVE APPROACHES TO THE MANAGEMENT OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE TOURIST INDUSTRY IN THE CONDITIONS OF A PANDEMIC CRISIS

Introduction. The success of the creative development of the tourism industry in a pandemic lockdown and in the post-quarantine period is closely related to the quality of a number of factors that shape the level of creative activity of its subjects and provide competitive advantages. Adequate choice and scientific substantiation of strategic alternatives for the development of the tourism industry highlights the need for a targeted study of the parameters of its creative renewal. Methods. Methods of scientific abstraction, analysis and synthesis are used, technologies of structuring and systematization are applied during construction of logical-structural decomposition of creativity of tourist destinations and structural model of management of tourist cluster. The SWOT analysis was used to evaluate strategic alternatives for the development of tourism entities. Results. The generalization of research on the peculiarities of the functioning of the tourism sector in the context of the socio-economic crisis caused by pandemic constraints, suggests that the restoration of effective business entities should be managed, targeted action of all participants. At the same time, ensuring the efficiency of the tourism industry requires the implementation of creative technologies in management algorithms at all stages of overcoming the crisis. Qualitative goals of post-pandemic recovery of the industry can be generalized in the form of two main directions: 1) creation of creative tourist offer (including tourist experience and offer of original tourist product) on the basis of high-quality entertainment industry, introduction of European market trends, with emphasis on authentic values ; 2) building a clear identity of domestic tourism enterprises, which would synergistically connect micro-destinations, emphasizing the creative benefits in the minds of potential tourists. Discussion. Further research on the possibilities of creative management to overcome the crisis in the tourism industry should cover the problems of creating unique tourism products based on authentic values, reducing the seasonality of domestic resorts, modernization of tourism infrastructure and integration of tourist inactive regions in creative projects. Keywords: tourism entities, Covid-19 pandemic, socio-economic crisis, creative management, destination, tourist offer, tourist cluster.