He Wu-Jing
The Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.
Front Psychol. 2024 Aug 29;15:1389909. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2024.1389909. eCollection 2024.
The positive mindfulness-creativity link has been widely documented; however, its underlying psychological mechanisms remain less understood. From the perspective of positive psychology, this study examined the mediating effect of psychological capital (PsyCap) on the effect of dispositional mindfulness on creative functioning. A total of 894 Chinese secondary school students in Hong Kong (50.8% female; = 15.5 years) completed the study. A cross-sectional design was used, in which context PsyCap and dispositional mindfulness were assessed by the Chinese version of the revised Compound PsyCap Scale (CPC-12R) and the Mindful Attention Awareness Scale (MAAS), respectively. Moreover, by adopting the multiple-measurement approach to creativity, three commonly used creativity tests (i.e., the Wallach-Kogan Creativity Test/WKCT, the Test for Creative Thinking-Drawing Production/TCT-DP, and the Creative Problem-Solving Test/CPST) were applied to capture three aspects of creativity (i.e., divergent thinking, creative combination, and creative problem solving). The results suggest that (1) PsyCap partially but significantly mediated the mindfulness-creativity link for all three aspects of creative functioning, and (2) PsyCap demonstrated the strongest effect size in mediating the mindfulness-creativity link for creative problem solving, followed by creative combination and then divergent thinking. These results, on the one hand, support the positive psychology perspective by confirming a positive psychological resource mechanism regarding the relationship between mindfulness and creativity. On the other hand, the results regarding the varied sizes of the mediation effect further enrich the discourse on this perspective by showing that the mediation mechanism may function to different degrees depending on which aspect of creativity is under consideration. These findings illuminate the positive functioning of mindfulness, psychological resources/capital and creativity.
正念与创造力之间的正向关联已被广泛记载；然而，其潜在的心理机制仍鲜为人知。从积极心理学的角度来看，本研究考察了心理资本（PsyCap）在特质正念对创造性功能影响中的中介作用。共有894名香港中学生（50.8%为女生；平均年龄 = 15.5岁）参与了本研究。采用横断面设计，在此背景下，分别通过中文版修订后的复合心理资本量表（CPC - 12R）和正念注意觉知量表（MAAS）对心理资本和特质正念进行评估。此外，通过采用多测量方法来衡量创造力，应用了三项常用的创造力测试（即沃拉赫 - 科根创造力测试/WKCT、创造性思维绘图制作测试/TCT - DP和创造性问题解决测试/CPST）来捕捉创造力的三个方面（即发散性思维、创造性组合和创造性问题解决）。结果表明：（1）心理资本在创造性功能的所有三个方面部分但显著地中介了正念与创造力之间的联系；（2）在中介正念与创造力在创造性问题解决方面的联系时，心理资本表现出最强的效应量，其次是创造性组合，然后是发散性思维。这些结果一方面通过确认正念与创造力之间关系的积极心理资源机制，支持了积极心理学的观点。另一方面，关于中介效应大小差异的结果进一步丰富了这一观点的论述，表明中介机制可能因所考虑的创造力方面不同而发挥不同程度的作用。这些发现阐明了正念、心理资源/资本和创造力的积极作用。
