What is it about?
Creativity is essential to drive innovation and cope with uncertainty. Creativity is the practice of thinking or moving outside the box. We have shown that children more creative in thinking and moving showed better problem-solving skills, positive affect, self-control, and personal traits related to creativity (strengths for creativity) such as openness and curiosity. Strengths for creativity helps with moving creatively indirectly through self-regulation. This was not the same for thinking creatively.
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Why is it important?
Our research highlights the relevance of movement in the development of cognition in childhood. One practical implication of this research is that developing self-regulation ability in an embodied context such as P.E. could aid children to use their personality traits to perform well in creative tasks.
Perspectives
I hope that schools maintain the time they offer for physical activity and that P.E. school programmes focus more on motor creativity and offer a buffet of experiences for children to experience.
Fotini Vasilopoulos
University of Sydney
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This page is a summary of: Predictors of cognitive and motor creativity in childhood., Psychology of Aesthetics Creativity and the Arts, September 2024, American Psychological Association (APA),
DOI: 10.1037/aca0000693.
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