Tie Bijie, Yang Wenjing, Huo Tengbin, Gao Yixin, Yang Xiongjian, Tian Dingyue, Pelowski Matthew, Qiu Jiang
Center for Studies of Education and Psychology of Ethnic Minorities in Southwest China, Southwest University, Chongqing, China.
Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University (SWU), Chongqing, China.
J Pers. 2024 Dec 18. doi: 10.1111/jopy.13002.
Everyday creativity is fundamental to human existence and improved well-being. Beyond recent attention regarding how contextual, lifestyle, personality, and neurobiological differences might foster everyday creativity, empathy may also constitute an intriguing connection. However, this potential relationship has not yet been systematically assessed.
Study 1 used multiple psychometric instruments to examine the levels of emotional and cognitive empathies and everyday creativity among different samples (n = 809). Study 2 used a cross-lagged panel model (CLPM) to examine longitudinal behavioral data (n = 653 at T1, n = 413 at T2) to determine how cognitive empathy might predict everyday creativity.
Study 1 found that cognitive but not affective empathy exhibited a significant positive correlation with everyday creativity and domain-specific creative behaviors. Study 2 also reported a positive correlation between cognitive empathy, overall creative achievement, and certain domain-specific creative achievements. Cognitive empathy was linked to greater involvement in everyday creativity.
To our knowledge, these studies are the first to demonstrate a robust relationship between cognitive empathy and everyday creativity across different samples, measures, and longitudinal data, providing evidence of a nuanced relationship between cognitive empathy and creative achievement. Future studies should explore how creativity or empathy may foster empathic/creative development.
日常创造力是人类生存和幸福感提升的基础。除了近期人们关注情境、生活方式、个性和神经生物学差异如何促进日常创造力外，同理心可能也是一个有趣的关联因素。然而，这种潜在关系尚未得到系统评估。
研究1使用多种心理测量工具，考察不同样本（n = 809）中的情感同理心和认知同理心水平以及日常创造力。研究2使用交叉滞后面板模型（CLPM）来考察纵向行为数据（T1时n = 653，T2时n = 413），以确定认知同理心如何预测日常创造力。
研究1发现，认知同理心而非情感同理心与日常创造力及特定领域的创造性行为呈显著正相关。研究2也报告了认知同理心、总体创造性成就和某些特定领域创造性成就之间存在正相关。认知同理心与更多参与日常创造力相关。
据我们所知，这些研究首次证明了在不同样本、测量方法和纵向数据中，认知同理心与日常创造力之间存在稳固关系，为认知同理心与创造性成就之间的细微关系提供了证据。未来的研究应探索创造力或同理心如何促进同理心/创造性发展。
