High Creative Potential Research Articles

EKONOMI KREATIF SEBAGAI LOKOMOTIF BARU PEREKONOMIAN INDONESIA MENUJU INDONESIA YANG MAJU

In recent years, attention towards the creative economy has increased on a global scale. This concept refers to an economy that is not only based on physical goods, but also involves the ownership of intangible assets, such as innovation and creativity. This article aims to explain how the creative economy can become a major driver in Indonesia's economy, potentially leading the country towards a more advanced future. The discussion includes a paradigm shift from an economy focused on physical production to one that emphasizes innovation, as well as a transformation from a recorded economy to a creativity-based economy. Furthermore, the article reveals how the creative economy can help Indonesia develop more innovative industries and compete in the international market. The use of the creative economy is also expected to reduce poverty levels and create a brighter future for the national economy. Therefore, success in implementing policies and utilizing Indonesia's high creative potential will lead the country towards an innovative, competitive, and sustainable economy in the future.

The value of lithography in artistic creation

In the carried out research is highlighted the role and contribution of lithography as an original technique of multiplication, which contributed to the development of graphic art. Focusing on the presentation of the technical characteristics, the author pleads for bringing back the interest of plastic artists and graphic design students towards this technique, which offers various possibilities for creative expression. The evolution of lithography in historical circumstances is being traced, as well as its impact in artistic creation, highlighting both the advantages of lithography and its utilitarian and aesthetic role. At the same time, are mentioned the most representative plastic artists who have approached the lithographic technique in their works, which influences and helps the contemporary artist in his own work, marked by the active interaction of technology, science and art. Only by mastering the various techniques professionals will be educated with a developed visual perception and a high creative potential.

Development of the Creative Potential of Future Teachers Based on Smart Education

The purpose of this research is to examine the impact of smart education on the development of the creative potential of future teachers. If we consider the research as a model, we can see that it was formed using the mixed method. The study group consisted of 172 teacher candidates who are pursuing their education at various universities in Almaty, Kazakhstan. It is noted that the data collection tools used in the research included a semi-structured interview form that was developed by the researchers and supported by experts in the field. The analysis of the quantitative data from the research was conducted using a statistical programme. In addition to calculating percentages, frequencies, and means, independent variables t-tests and one-way analyses of variance were applied. For the analysis of the qualitative data from the studies, they were grouped and analysed. As a result of the research, it has been determined that teacher candidates who use smart education have high creative potential.

Creativity - Fundamental Factor in Professional Success

In modern society, there is an increasingly intense search for not only the economic efficiency of labor, but also human efficiency, but above all, to achieve the satisfaction of labor. The satisfaction of the mountain is the result of the difference between the amount of moral or financial order that a man finds in the restored mountain and what he estimates that he should get. It determines performance and the characteristics of personality, motivation, adherence, creativity, mental and organizational health. The present study aims to verify the role of creativity factors in determining professional success. It is to be expected that people with a high creative potential can also present a high level of professional satisfaction, a level especially associated with professional success. We are also interested in studying which dimensions of professional success are related to aspects of creativity.

Geodatenkultur der Diversität: eine neopragmatische Skizzierung

ZusammenfassungIn den letzten Jahren wurden grundlegende Veränderungen hinsichtlich Geodatenressourcen deutlich. Die Etablierung von Gaming-Software und dazugehörigen webbasierten Austausch- und Kommunikationsplattformen bietet der Kartographie und den Geoinformationswissenschaften neue Potenziale an Geodaten, die − insbesondere im Bereich der 3D-Visualisierung − ein Umdenken erfordern. Die Ressourcen der amtlichen geodatenhaltenden Stellen und ersten VGI-Communities aus frühen Zeiten der Digitalisierung werden erweitert um Geodaten, die der 3D-Modellierung im Gaming entstammen und hohes Kreativpotenzial enthalten. Hier zeigt sich, bezogen auf die Verfügbarkeit von Geodatenressourcen, ein Wandel der Geodatenkultur − von einer Geodatenkultur der Abhängigkeit (ca. 1830–1980), über eine Geodatenkultur der Teilhabe (ca. 1980–2020) bis hin zu deren Weitentwicklung zu einer Geodatenkultur der Diversität (seit ca. 2020). Diese drei Paradigmen einer Geodatenkultur werden in diesem Aufsatz, nach einer Begriffsreflektion, die wissenschaftstheoretisch auf einem neopragmatischen Verständnis aufbaut, diskutiert. Verwendete Fallbeispiele basieren auf Virtual und Augmented Reality. Mit diesen Beispielen wird die Synthese der verschiedenen Geodatenressourcen für zielgerichtete 3D-kartographische Anwendungen hervorgehoben.

Emotional Intelligence and Creative Self-Efficacy among Gifted Children: Mediating Effect of Self-Esteem and Moderating Effect of Gender

Creative self-efficacy is a type of individual creative self-belief, which is an important predictor of creative activities and achievements. For gifted children who have high creative potential, the influencing factors of their creative self-efficacy need to be further explored. This study aimed to explore the relationship between gender, emotional intelligence, self-esteem, and creative self-efficacy in gifted children, with special attention on the mediating role of self-esteem and the moderating role of gender in the relationship between emotional intelligence and creative self-efficacy. Participants in this study included 226 gifted students aged 10-13 (135 boys and 91 girls) from experimental classrooms designed for gifted students in North China. The creative self-efficacy scale (CSE), the emotional intelligence scale (EIS), and the self-esteem scale (SES) were tested. The statistical results indicate that: (1) emotional intelligence significantly positively predicted creative self-efficacy in gifted children; (2) self-esteem partially mediated the link between emotional intelligence and creative self-efficacy; and (3) gender acted as a moderator for the mediation model, in which self-esteem played a complete mediating role in gifted boys, while the mediating role of self-esteem in gifted girls was not significant. The results of this study reveal the influential mechanism of creative self-efficacy in gifted children of different genders and may provide further implications for promoting the creative potential of gifted children.

THE ROLE OF STUDENTS' RESEARCH WORK IN THE EDUCATIONAL PROCESS

The article examines the issues of students' research work, components and functions of research work. The types and forms of research work in academic and extracurricular time are distinguished.
 Of particular practical importance is the specialist's ability to adequately perceive complex life situations, correctly assess them, quickly adapt to new cognitive situations, purposefully process available information, search for and supplement the missing information, know the patterns of its optimal use, predict the results of activities, using one's intellectual and creative potential .
 At each level of education, it is necessary to develop students' creative thinking and research skills, without which it is difficult both to continue their education and to be realized in the labor market.
 In this connection, scientific research activity is gaining more and more importance and is turning into one of the main components of the professional training of the future specialist.
 Scientific and research activity improves not only the professional level, but also forms specific skills and habits, the appropriate composition of thinking and communication. In connection with the new requirements for the quality of the training of specialists, meeting the needs of the accelerated scientific, technical and socio-economic development of the country, the scientific and research activity of students is considered as an important factor in improving the entire system of training specialists for various branches of the national economy. It is scientific and research activity that allows deepening the professional direction of education, educating specialists with high creative potential and influences the formation of social and professional maturity of future specialists.
 Thus, in order to successfully manage the research work of students, the dynamics of its constituent elements, the teacher must clearly imagine its main tasks: which research object to choose and which research methods to apply. Therefore, the strategic task in this direction is to foresee the following conditions, means: forms and content of activities, which are the most favorable and optimal for the development and improvement of scientific research work.
 Accordingly, scientific and research activities should be organized so that students, after graduating from the educational institution, strive for constant improvement of their professional level. A person must constantly learn, correlating his knowledge with new requirements, his needs, the needs of society, the labor market. The personality itself is its professional toolkit.

How many creatives are enough? Exploring how manipulating the number of creative players in the opposing team impacts footballers' performance during small-sided games

This study explored how varying the number of creative opponents affects youth players' performance during football small-sided games (SSGs). Initially, 60 players from 3 different age groups with n = 20 in each (under-9, U9; under-11, U11; and under-13, U13) were tested during SSGs to rank them according to their creative potential. Based on these rankings, four players shown to possess with a medium creative potential were assigned to the intermediate team for each age group. This team competed against a team on which players with high creative potential were progressively included (from one to finally all four players, 1C to 4C) during a 4-a-side plus goalkeeper SSG. The results showed that U9 players increased the individual space explored when facing more creative opponents (p = .012), while the U11 (p = .026) and U13 (p < .001) only increased when facing 2C and 3C. Playing against more creative opponents induced more variability in the distance to own (p = .046) and the opponent team's centroid (p = .046) in the U9, regularity in the U11 (team centroid, p < .001; opponents' centroid, p = .001) and lower regularity in the U13 (team centroid, p = .013 opponents' centroid, p = .009). These distinct movement patterns seemed to reflect the differences in players' perceptual and motor skills. A higher creative score was found against 1C (vs 2C and 4C, p = .006) and 3C (vs 4C, p = .006) in the U9. The results from the effect sizes indicated higher values on the players' attempts, fluency and versatility when facing 1C to 3C, whereas a clear decrease was observed against 4C for all age groups. Hence, moderate and high demanding scenarios prompt the emergence of new behaviours while extremely high demanding scenarios (i.e. 4C) seem to constrain all the creativity components. Overall, adding creative players mostly impacts the team's collective behaviour rather than the players' creativity-related skills.

WORD-FORMING CONTAMINATION AS A MANIFESTING OF LINGUOCREATIVITY ON THE PHENOMENON OF WAR (ON THE MATERIAL OF MEDIA TEXTS)

The article considers word-forming contamination as a manifestation of the language game acquiring a pronounced pragmatic orientation to verbalize their emotional and psychological state during the military confrontation. The purpose of the study is to identify structural and semantic features of innovative contaminants in modern media discourse. The object of research is innovative derivatives in modern media texts and the subject-word-forming contaminants in the media and their structural and semantic varieties. The source base for the study served on 235 word-formation innovations recorded in the online media (mostly in telegram channels of Ukrainian and Russian opposition bloggers) from February to June 2022. It was found that the most active is the contamination type of derivatives formed by imposing one creative basis on another. In second place in terms of the number of recorded contaminants is the method of isolating one creative basis into another. It was found that 75% of the recorded graph derivatives contain the Latin letter Z, which in the Ukrainian and Russian opposition media discourse became a symbol of the Russian invasion of Ukraine and acquired a negative evaluation value. Particular attention is paid to innovations that have emerged as a result of the language game with precedent phrases from media texts of the Russian-Ukrainian war. It is proposed to nominate such occasionalism, which was formed in a lexical-syntactic way and acquired the status of hashtags, and hashtag-contaminants. It is proved that the names of the aggressor country, government officials, the military, and all supporters of imperial-militaristic policy acquire a low tone. The negative evaluation of a person or phenomenon occurs with the help of reduced-invective vocabulary, which creates an ironic color to the work. The synthetic functionality of contaminants, which perform nominative, evaluative and expressive functions at the same time, is substantiated. This fact confirms the general tendency towards the conscious desire of speakers to save word-forming means. The study provides grounds for determining the following results: modern media texts demonstrate the extraordinary activity of innovative contaminants as information weapons during the Russian-Ukrainian war; the variety of structural and semantic models of the analyzed derivatives testifies to the high creative potential of speakers and the productivity of non-casual ways of word-formation. We see the prospects of the study in the in-depth development of the structural-semantic classification of contaminants in modern media discourse.

IDENTIFICATION OF STRATEGIES FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF CREATIVITY

There are many views on the concept of creativity, but so far it has not been possible to group all the variety of approaches to its definition on various aspects. The purpose of the article is to clarify the concept of «development of creativity» and identify strategies for the development of creativity on the example of machine-building enterprises. Methodology. The approach to the study and understanding of creativity (as a result, as a process, as an ability (property) of a person and a characteristic of the "creative environment") is considered as a 4P – model of creativity. The matrix is built on integral indicators, which are obtained by the method of multiplicative convolution. The proposed partial indicators were substantiated using the method of multivariate factor analysis, which allowed us to choose the most significant of them. For further analysis of integral indicators we used the improved Harrington scale and determined the level of company's creativity development according to its creative potential and dynamic abilities. Results. In the context of the study, creativity is a process, it is about its development in dynamics. Therefore, the development of creativity is a factor of innovation, which changes in dynamics and considers four components: personality, process, result and climate (or environment), which characterize qualitative change. Having obtained the value of the level of creativity development in the creative and dynamic areas, a strategy for increasing the development of creativity of the enterprise in accordance with the values of integral indicators, based on reasonable indicators, was designed and planned. Having received integral indicators of the level of creativity development in terms of creative and dynamic approaches in quantitative and qualitative dimensions, the determination of strategies for further development of creativity of industrial enterprises was carried out. The coordinates of the positioning of enterprises in the matrix of strategies are integral indicators, and the distribution of the matrix by quadrants is carried out in accordance with the improved Harrington scale. The positioning of the studied enterprises is presented in the form of a matrix. Practical implications. By constructing a matrix of strategies for the development of creativity of machine-building enterprises for 2020, it was concluded that all of the analyzed enterprises have high creative potential and mostly low dynamic capabilities (PJSC «Kharkiv Machine Tool Plant», PJSC «PIVDENKABEL PLANT», PJSC «Kharkiv Electrotechnical Plant «Transvyaz», JSC «Ukrainian Power Ma-chines», PJSC «Kharkiv Electric Equipment Plant», PJSC «Kharkiv Bearing Plant», SSE «Association of Communards» – they are characterized by the traditional strategy). For PJSC «Kharkiv Tractor Plant named after S. Ordzhonikidze» and PJSC «FED» appropriate strategy is offensive. Among the analyzed enterprises in 2020, only PJSC «Electromashina» corresponds to a synergistic strategy, ie has high and dynamic abilities and creative potential. Value/originality. Development of a theme of work solves very important scientific and practical problem – perfection of offers on definition of development of creativity of the industrial enterprises and revealing of strategy of development of creativity of the enterprises. Having defined the strategy of development of creativity of the enterprise, there is a basis for formation of the plan of tactical and strategic actions on development of creativity for the concrete, analyzed enterprise.

В. В. Лісіца, О. М. Михайленко, І. В. Юрко ЕКОСИСТЕМНИЙ ПІДХІД ЯК ІНСТРУМЕНТ РОЗВИТКУ ТА ПІДТРИМКИ КРЕАТИВНИХ ІНДУСТРІЙ НА РЕГІОНАЛЬНОМУ РІВНІ

The purpose of this article is to study the essence of the ecosystem approach in the development of creative industries at the regional level, analyze the constituent elements of the creative ecosystem, substantiate the directions for growth and support of creative industries as a component of the regional creative ecosystem. Methodology of research. The solution of the tasks set in the article is carried out with the help of the following general scientific and special research methods: analysis and synthesis, systematization, comparison and generalisation and dialectical approach. Findings. The carried out analysis made it possible to determine peculiarities of the application of the ecosystem approach as a tool for the development and support of creative industries at the regional level in modern conditions. We also identified and substantiated trends and peculiarities of the development of creative industries in Ukraine in modern conditions, amongst which we highlighted the following particularities: strengthening the institutional capacity of creative industries, the growth of the economic potential of this sector, demonstrating high creative potential and active involvement in global cultural trends, low level of cooperation between various sectors of creative industries; weak interaction of creative industries with authorities, businesses and other partners. It is determined that the ecosystem approach describes successful entrepreneurship as a process resulting from the interaction between entrepreneurs and the environment, as well as dynamic local social, institutional and cultural processes of the participants that encourage and facilitate the formation and growth of new firms. In the course of the study, the attributes and characteristics of entrepreneurial and creative ecosystems were encountered, attention was focused on the main points related to the application of the ecosystem approach to the development of creative industries at the regional level. Strategic directions for the formation of creative ecosystems at the regional level are offered. Practical value. The proposed recommendations are aimed at identifying new growth opportunities for the creative industry sector based on an ecosystem approach at the regional level.

Pedagogy of choreography: teaching features and principles

The article reveals the basic principles of training, which preserve the continuity of traditions and the specifics of the profession in the training of specialists in the field of choreographic art. The authors analyze the peculiarities of teaching in the field of choreographic art, develop its concepts and principles based on the experience of teaching and performing practice in the training of specialists-mentors, teachers-choreographers of children's dance groups. On the basis of scientific works in the field of general pedagogy and pedagogy of choreographic art, the authors have developed modern principles of teaching and presented the results of the study for consideration. The recognition of the choreographic art of Kazakhstan at the world level is the result of the high creative potential of choreographers, the performance skills of dancers and the invaluable work of domestic choreographers. In the conditions of intensive development of the innovative, technological and integration process, the special specifics of choreographic pedagogy, the main functions and professional activities of choreographers require scientific and creative research and competent differentiation.

METHOD OF FORMING AN EFFECTIVE TEAM OF EDUCATIONAL PROFESSIONAL PROJECTS

Project management methodology is widely used in various aspects of educational activities, including in the field of adult education. In-service training projects implemented by higher education institutions in the field of adult education, mainly at public expense, are limited, on the one hand, in terms of implementation, which leads to the impossibility of increasing project implementation time, then in the amount of funding regulated by relevant provisions and resolutions on the organization of professional training (advanced training) of specialists, and on the other hand, the internal regulations and rules of educational institutions on the organization of training and implementation of educational projects in the field of higher education, aimed at working with students. At the same time, the implementation of such projects is subject to increased requirements for their quality. Under such conditions, the implementation of educational projects of professional development is quite difficult. Teams of educational projects of advanced training are formed mainly of persons selected from among the internal employees of the educational institution, who are able to work with an adult audience. To form such teams, it is necessary to take into account the peculiarities of adult learning, the peculiarities of educational projects of professional development and the peculiarities of the teams of such projects. Accordingly, the management of such teams is associated with certain personnel risks that may affect the success of the project. In turn, working with teams whose members have a high creative potential requires effective management methods, one of which is the process of forming a single, coherent team of like-minded people who can effectively achieve the project goal. A method of forming teams of educational projects of advanced training, obtained as a result of cross-evaluation of qualities (creativity) of team members of such projects, taking into account their personnel risks and "degrees of trust", is proposed. It is concluded that this method allows the head of the educational project to increase the efficiency of decision-making on team building or planning of executors for the educational project of professional development, by selecting applicants with the highest "degrees of trust".

Ivan Fedorovych Prokopenko is 85 years old!

The article is devoted to the description of the life path of the doctor of Pedagogy, professor, academician of the National Academy of Pedagogical Sciences of Ukraine Ivan Fedorovych Prokopenko, who has been working for 40 years as rector of H.S. Skovoroda Kharkiv National Pedagogical University — one of the leading higher pedagogical education institutions in Ukraine with high creative potential, where modern standards and technologies are being introduced, a new structure of organization and management of the educational process, the material and technical base is being strengthened, the volumes and quality of scientific and pedagogical personnel training are expanding. The main direction of the university's activity during all the years of I.F.Prokopenko’s tenure as rector was the training of specialist teachers — nationally conscious citizens, patriots and real professionals. Academician I.F.Prokopenko has worked out and provided a new educational system for training a future teacher into the practice of higher pedagogical education, which is implemented through innovative pedagogical technologies aimed at developing the student’s personality, his creative potential. I.F. Prokopenko is an example of an intelligent and decent person, a talented and successful organizer of educational activities, an experienced and principled educator.

Creative-digital diagnostics and reflexive development of school students in the course of studying Natural Sciences

The authors of the article raises an issue that is relevant from the perspective of modern education connected with difficulties of using the results of psychological diagnostics of students’ creative thinking carried out with the help of traditional testing techniques within the framework of the actual learning process. To address this issue, it is recommended to use the solutions suggested by the “forming” and “reflexive” approaches to this problem and conduct a synthesis of these two approaches using modern digital technologies. This way, it will provide us with an opportunity to turn developing (forming) procedures into diagnostic and turn diagnostic means into developing. Such a conceptual and technological symbiosis allowed us to create a computer networking system “CREO DATUM” enabling its users to carry out creative-digital diagnostics and psycho-pedagogical support of reflexive development of students’ creative potential at the same time based on the material of one of the natural sciences taught within the school curriculum, namely chemistry. This system includes a database of domain-specific creative tasks by solving which students demonstrate their thinking abilities; digitalization of this process in the online mode allows teachers to monitor and assess the dynamics of such parameters of their creative potential as divergence and criticality. This tool enables the teacher and student to predict the area of future development promptly and select further creative tasks on the subject via “CREO DATUM” taking into consideration the strengths and weaknesses of previous creative efforts. Experimental testing of the “CREO DATUM” system allowed us to categorize the students who took part in the research. Four groups have been identified: children with high creative potential, ones with low creative potential, divergents, and analysts. Methodological recommendations have been developed for each category of students based on the material of a natural science subject aimed at psychological and pedagogical support of their development.

ПРОСВЕТИТЕЛЬСКАЯ ДЕЯТЕЛЬНОСТЬ БУДУЩЕГО ПЕДАГОГА В УСЛОВИЯХ СЕЛЬСКОЙ СРЕДЫ

Introduction. The training of future teachers is one of the most discussed topics in education. Special attention focuses on a rural school and its staff. Teachers of a rural school should undoubtedly have a high creative potential, social activity, and stable emotional intelligence. The rural teacher should be able to solve professional problems quickly and, sometimes, extraordinarily, strive for self-improvement and competently participate in resolving the uncharacteristic issues through a constructive dialogue with the authorities and the population living in the village. The specifics of the rural environment require the future teacher to master another type of professional activity. This is enlightenment. Thus, the phenomenon of the “enlightenment activity” of a future rural teacher is an object of the analysis. This paper reveals the concept of enlightenment activity of the future teacher; clarifies the structure of this activity; identifies the features of the rural environment; determines the main directions of the enlightenment activity of the future rural teacher; presents the summary results of the sociological survey on the stated research topic. Materials and methods. The study involved a general analysis of the educational activities of the future rural teacher. The methods employed are the analysis of scientific, psychological, and pedagogical literature on the topic of the research; pedagogical observation; conversation and questioning of primary school teachers, teachers of preschool and additional education, students of Angarsk Pedagogical College, parents, or their representatives. The results of the study. The analysis of the theory and methodology in pedagogical education of the rural population has made it possible to clarify the essential characteristic of the “enlightenment activity” concept and present the structure of this activity. The sociological survey “My small Homeland, what is it?” was conducted to identify the features of the rural environment and the main directions of enlightenment activities in the rural area. Students of Angarsk Pedagogical College and their parents, primary school teachers, teachers of preschool and additional education living in rural areas took part in this survey. Its results are summarized and presented in this paper. Conclusion. The practical significance of the work lies in considering the phenomenon of “enlightenment activity” of the future rural teacher. The study is still ongoing, but even preliminary data allow the conclusion that it is necessary to introduce the sections aimed at developing the skills to carry out the enlightenment activities of future teachers in a rural environment in the educational programs of the SBPEI Angarsk Pedagogical College. Keywords: enlightenment activity, education, future teacher, rural environment, professional activity, place of residence, family and neighborhood microenvironment

Creativity Formation in the Context of Social and Psychological Adaptation of Preschoolers Aged 5-6 Years

The aim of the research is to analyze the creativity manifestation in the early stages of ontogenesis; to verify the relationship between creative abilities and social adaptation of preschoolers. The importance of the topic under consideration is determined by the fact that preschoolers’ childhood is the main sensitive period for the formation of creativity as the person’s adaptive re-source. The deficiency of development during this period cannot be compensated later. The examination of the creative abilities of 115 children aged 5-6 years has been conducted. Based on the total result of seven subtests Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking, three groups of children have been distinguished. They include children with high (N=20), medium (N=79), and low (N=16) creative potential. Data on behavior have been collected from 142 parents and 24 teachers who supervised children during communication situations. The adaptation of preschoolers have been analyzed on three sides: as a set of individual be-havioral reactions conditioning cooperation with the environment (A questionnaire of children’s temperament Thomas and Chess); as a social competency – skills in communication with children and adults (expert assessments of teachers based on the open structured supervision), and as an emotional adaptation to life situations (the projective technique of anxiety diagnostics “Choose a face”). In all cases, children with high creative potential demonstrated particular differences. The positive reaction of “approaching” in response to new stimuli, a low sensory threshold, and high speed of adaptation to the change of external terms are a typological profile of a “creative” temperament. Related problems of emotional reaction and the increased anxiety of pre-schoolers have been detected. The development of skills for social competence lags significantly in the group with a low level of creativity. The factorial structure of creative abilities, which presents three types of creativity (subject, verbal, and figurative), and three leading abilities (productivity, originality, and fluency) have been suggested. The particular parameters of creativity corre-late in different ways with the adaptability of preschoolers: the readiness is more successful, and originality is associated with disturbances of emotional regulation. In conclusion, creativity is presented as a natural condition for a child’s adaptation.

MOTIVATIVE ASPECTS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF PRESCHOOLERS WITH HIGH CREATIVE POTENTIAL

The article is devoted to one of the urgent problems of modern psychology - the problem of personality traits in the development of children with high creative potential. The main attention is paid to their motivational manifestations at the stage of preschool childhood. Motivation is seen as an important factor in the disclosure of children's abilities and gifts. The approach proposed by A.M. Matyushkin is used to understand and study giftedness as a prerequisite for the development of a creative personality. The article presents the results of an empirical study, which purpose was to highlight the features of the motivation of preschoolers with high creative potential. The study involved 265 preschoolers of 6-7 years old. The use of a complex of diagnostic techniques made it possible to identify a group of children (N = 52) with a high creative potential among them, and to analyze the specifics of their motivational manifestations in comparison with their peers. It was found that their desire to learn new things was more pronounced than that among their peers. Different variants of the ratio of motivational manifestations are highlighted. More than half of preschoolers, both among the gifted and among their peers, were characterized by a balance of motivational manifestations and their severity: they equally wanted to learn new things and play. At the same time, the willingness to be active and proactive in cognition was observed in less than a third of older preschool children, regardless of the level of their creative potential. The need to take into account the age characteristics of motivation and the individual variability of its manifestations at the stage of preschool childhood for the successful disclosure of children's talents and the harmonious development of a creative personality is emphasized.

Creativity in Narcolepsy Type 1: The Role of Dissociated REM Sleep Manifestations.

PurposeA higher creative potential has been reported in narcoleptic patients and linked to lucid dreaming. The aim of the present study was to explore the role of narcolepsy symptoms (presence and severity) in predicting creativity.Patients and MethodsSixty-six consecutive type 1 narcolepsy patients (mean age 38.62 ± 17.05, 31 females) took part in this study. Creative achievement in different life domains and creative beliefs were assessed by a self-reported questionnaire and a scale measuring the creative self, respectively; creative performance was measured through a divergent thinking test (generation of alternative original solutions to an open problem).ResultsWe found a key effect of hypnagogic hallucinations in modulating creative behaviour. We therefore tested at first whether hypnagogic hallucinations could interact with specific mental states associated with creativity and in particular mind wandering, a factor associated with both creative performance and achievement. Secondly, we verified if hypnagogic hallucinations could influence the definition of creative identity in type 1 narcolepsy patients, which in turn could predict their creative achievement and creative performance. Results showed that spontaneous mind wandering influenced creative achievement through a moderation effect of sleep paralysis and hypnagogic hallucinations. Moreover, sleep paralysis and hypnagogic hallucinations indirectly influenced, through creative identity, both creative achievement and performance (fluency score).ConclusionOur results highlight the role of hypnagogic hallucinations in triggering the process of mind wandering which leads to greater creative success. In addition, this symptom affects creative identity in narcolepsy, leading in turn to higher creative success and creative potential of narcoleptic patients.

Comparative Study of Divergent Thinking among Participants in a German Science Competition and Pupils in a Control Group

Creativity is an important skill that will increasingly play a role in the future professional sphere, not only in arts and crafts professions but also in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) professions. It is precisely in this field that new methods and products have to be constantly developed. Therefore, the promotion of high creative potential needs to start at school. Extracurricular learning activities that prepare pupils for science competitions can also have an impact on this promotion. Since few studies have explored divergent thinking in school chemistry classes and extracurricular science competitions, this study aims to show differences in divergent thinking based on gender, parental academic background and prior participation in a science competition, using a validated test.