The full article is published in: Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts (October 2021)
DOI: https://psycnet.apa.org/doi/10.1037/aca0000445
Abstract
The putative associations between creative adaptability and the experience of emotional well-being (i.e., a positivity ratio of more positive than negative emotions) was investigated during the COVID-19 pandemic outbreak with a sample of 1,432 adults from four countries: Israel (n = 310), United States (n = 312), Italy (n = 378), and China (n = 569). Country differences and a mediation model for creative adaptability predicting emotional well-being through creative self-efficacy, resilient coping, and emotion regulation (reappraisal and suppression) were examined. The findings point to slight differences in countries, which are potentially due not only to the culture but also to the phase of the pandemic. More consistently, creative adaptability was positively associated with creative self-efficacy, resilient coping, and reappraisal emotion regulation in all countries. Regarding mediation, in the Israeli, Italian, and Chinese samples, creative adaptability was positively related to resilient coping, which was positively related to emotional well-being. Similar relations were found for creative self-efficacy as a mediator in the United States and Chinese samples. In the Chinese sample, creative adaptability was positively associated with suppression, which was negatively associated with emotional well-being. These results are suggestive of the role of creative adaptability in dealing with the emotional burden associated with the COVID-19 crisis.
Authors
Hod Orkibi, Certified Psychodramatist, director of the Drama & Health Science Lab, and Associate Professor at the School of Creative Arts Therapies, University of Haifa, Israel (website: https://dandh.haifa.ac.il/?p=45, email address: horkibi@univ.haifa.ac.il).
Adar Ben-Eliyahu, Associate Professor at the School of Therapy, Counseling and Human Development Faculty of Education, University of Haifa, Israel (email address: adarbe@edu.haifa.ac.il.).
Roni Reiter-Palmon, Distinguished Professor of Industrial/Organizational (I/O) Psychology and the Director of the I/O Psychology Graduate Program at the Department of Psychology University of Nebraska at Omaha (UNO), USA (email address: rreiter-palmon@unomaha.edu)
Ines Testoni, Psychologist, Psychotherapist, and Full Professor at the FISPPA Department, University of Padua, Italy (email address: ines.testoni@unipd.it).
Gianmarco Biancalani, Certified Psychologist, Psychotherapist and Psychodramatist, and PhD Candidate at the School of Creative Arts Therapies, University of Haifa, Israel (email address: gianmarco.biancalani@gmail.com).
Vignesh Murugavel, PhD Candidate at the Department of Psychology, University of Nebraska at Omaha.
Fei Gu, School of Business, Shandong Normal University, China.