Xia Tiansheng, Sun Yongqing, An Yi, Li Linli
School of Art and Design, Guangdong University of Technology, Guangzhou, China.
Front Psychol. 2023 Feb 9;14:1052257. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1052257. eCollection 2023.
Creativity plays an important role in design. However, there have been mixed results about whether music, as an environmental stimulus, improves design creativity performance.
Participants were 57 design major students who were randomly assigned to one of three groups, with 19 students in each group: no music, pure music, and music with intelligible semantic information (unrelated to the task) playing in the background. Each participant completed a design task (design a tool for storing painting materials), with two phases in it, one that involved idea generation (divergent thinking) and one that involved idea evaluation (convergent thinking). Performance in the two phases was rated based on six indices of creativity (fluency; flexibility; adaptability; feasibility; usefulness; novelty) and overall design creativity (ODC).
The results of one-way ANOVAs with Bonferroni correction showed that neither music environment had a significant influence on divergent thinking in idea generation nor convergent thinking in idea evaluation. However, both music environments had a significantly positive effect on novelty and ODC.
We discuss the implications of our current results for fostering designers' creativity performance.
创造力在设计中起着重要作用。然而,关于作为一种环境刺激因素的音乐是否能提高设计创造力表现,研究结果不一。
参与者为57名设计专业学生,他们被随机分为三组,每组19名学生:无音乐组、纯音乐组和背景播放有可理解语义信息(与任务无关)的音乐组。每位参与者完成一项设计任务(设计一种用于存放绘画材料的工具),该任务有两个阶段,一个是创意生成阶段(发散性思维),另一个是创意评估阶段(聚合性思维)。根据六个创造力指标(流畅性、灵活性、适应性、可行性、实用性、新颖性)和整体设计创造力(ODC)对两个阶段的表现进行评分。
经Bonferroni校正的单因素方差分析结果表明,两种音乐环境对创意生成阶段的发散性思维和创意评估阶段的聚合性思维均无显著影响。然而,两种音乐环境对新颖性和ODC均有显著的积极影响。
我们讨论了当前研究结果对培养设计师创造力表现的启示。