Influence of Creative Thinking and Playfulness on Creative Styles of the Individuals
This study was done to understand the influence of creative thinking and playfulness in enhancing creative self-esteem of students. 40 freshmen master’s students in the Design discipline, participated in the study. Participants were required to undergo an
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Abstract This study was done to understand the influence of creative thinking and playfulness in enhancing creative self-esteem of students. 40 freshmen master’s students in the Design discipline, participated in the study. Participants were required to undergo an activity involving creative thinking and playful activities. Their creative self-assessment was carried out using creative style questionnaire-Revised (CSQ-R), pre and post activity. Results did not indicate a global increase in creativity of the students as assessed by CSQ-R. However, two subscales of CSQ-R viz. Use of other people (p < 0.001) and Environmental Control/self-regulation (p = 0.04) showed significant change post activity. The findings are discussed in light of cognition research. We argue for design and implementation of such creative thinking based workshops in enhancing the creative styles of individuals especially through improvement in working with groups and self-regulation of the individuals.
Keywords Creativity Creative assessment Creative thinking Creative activity Creative workshops Creative enhancement Creative style questionnaire-revised
M. Kumar (&) S. Roy Design Programme, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India e-mail: [email protected] S. Roy e-mail: [email protected] A. Sameer Psychology Discipline, Department of HSS, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Kanpur, India e-mail: [email protected] © Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2017 A. Chakrabarti and D. Chakrabarti (eds.), Research into Design for Communities, Volume 2, Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies 66, DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-3521-0_40
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1 Introduction Creativity is a well-researched topic and various disciplines use varieties of definitions, theories and approaches. A comprehensive definition of creativity says “it’s an interaction encompassed by multiple attributes e.g. the environment, aptitude, the process and the individuals or group that achieves a novel and useful perceptible product suitable in the social context” [1]. Indeed creativity is one of the complex and multifaceted attribute required by individuals. Creative thinking is a necessary element for the individuals facing the challenges of the competitive world where demands are high. As once Einstein said “You can never solve a problem on the level on which it was created.” This clearly indicates the need of shift to creative thinking where the problem needs to be sensed differently. Various factors contribute to the development of creativity. Guilford [2–4] saw creativity as a collection of various complementary components (cognition, memory, convergent thinking, divergent thinking and evaluation). Creative people often engage themselves in various activities (a) collaborate and share their ideas with somebody else to be creative (b) influence from the external factors to facilitate their creativity (c) brainstorming techniques to generate multiple ideas [5]. Personal characteristic of an individual and creativity are also rel
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