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The Relationship between Happiness and Creativity: Happy Persons Are More Creative

Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology / Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, (P)1229-0653;
2010, v.24 no.3, pp.37-51
https://doi.org/10.21193/kjspp.2010.24.3.003


& (2010). The Relationship between Happiness and Creativity: Happy Persons Are More Creative. Korean Journal of Social and Personality Psychology, 24(3), 37-51, https://doi.org/10.21193/kjspp.2010.24.3.003
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Abstract

Fredrickson(1998; 2001)'s broaden-and-build model posits that positive emotions broaden the scopes of attention and cognition, which in turn has an effect of building that individual's physical, intellectual, and social resources. The present study tests this hypothesis by exploring the relationship between happiness and creativity. Study 1 examines whether the long-term happiness associates with creative personality. The results showed that chronically happy persons had more creative traits such as alternative problem-solving and adventurousness. Study 2 examines whether transient happy mood facilitates creative thinking. Positive or negative moods were induced by means of watching a few minutes of a comedy film or a sad movie. After films were shown subjects' creativity were measured by the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking. As expected, test scores on fluency, originality, and flexibility were higher for those in the positive mood condition than those in the negative mood condition. The results of two studies indicate that both long-term happiness and short-term happy mood have favorable effect on creativity.

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happiness, subjective well-being, psychological well-being, creativity, the broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions, 행복, 주관적 안녕감, 심리적 안녕감, 창의력, 긍정적 정서의 확장-형성 이론, happiness, subjective well-being, psychological well-being, creativity, the broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions

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