PMID- 37274645
OWN - NLM
STAT- PubMed-not-MEDLINE
LR  - 20230606
IS  - 2405-8440 (Print)
IS  - 2405-8440 (Electronic)
IS  - 2405-8440 (Linking)
VI  - 9
IP  - 6
DP  - 2023 Jun
TI  - Delving into the role of creativity on meaning in life: A multiple mediation 
      model.
PG  - e16566
LID - 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e16566 [doi]
LID - e16566
AB  - How to enhance the sense of meaning in life is a topic deserving of extensive 
      research. The impact of creativity on finding meaning in life, however, has not 
      been thoroughly explored in empirical research. This paper studies the 
      relationship between creativity and meaning in life, and the cognitive and 
      emotional factors underlying this relationship. The participants of this study 
      were 359 Chinese college students (38 males and 321 females; aged from 17 to 41 
      years) in learning English as a foreign language (EFL). Four instruments were 
      utilized in the survey, namely, the Kaufman Domains of Creativity Scale (K-DOCS), 
      the Positive Affect Scale, the General Self-Efficacy Scale (GSES), and the 
      Meaning in Life Questionnaire (MLQ). The correlation analysis shows that 
      creativity, positive affect, general self-efficacy, and meaning in life are all 
      positively correlated. According to a bootstrap method to assess the significance 
      of the indirect effect, general self-efficacy and positive affect play multiple 
      mediating roles in the relationship between creativity and meaning in life via 
      three mediating pathways: general self-efficacy alone, positive affect alone, and 
      the effect of general self-efficacy on positive affect. The mediating effect 
      accounts for nearly half (44.18%) of the total effect. This study examines the 
      theoretical connection between creativity and meaning in life, and uncovers the 
      psychological process that underlies this connection. On a practical level, these 
      results indicate that stimulating Chinese college students to engage in creative 
      activities in various fields can enhance their sense of meaning in life.
CI  - (c) 2023 The Authors.
FAU - Han, Jiantao
AU  - Han J
AD  - School of Educational Science, Anhui Normal University, No. 1 Beijing East Road, 
      Wuhu, 241000, China.
FAU - Wang, Yuwei
AU  - Wang Y
AD  - School of Educational Science, Anhui Normal University, No. 1 Beijing East Road, 
      Wuhu, 241000, China.
FAU - Qian, Junni
AU  - Qian J
AD  - School of Educational Science, Anhui Normal University, No. 1 Beijing East Road, 
      Wuhu, 241000, China.
FAU - Shi, Menghua
AU  - Shi M
AD  - School of Educational Science, Anhui Normal University, No. 1 Beijing East Road, 
      Wuhu, 241000, China.
LA  - eng
PT  - Journal Article
DEP - 20230522
PL  - England
TA  - Heliyon
JT  - Heliyon
JID - 101672560
PMC - PMC10238719
OTO - NOTNLM
OT  - Creativity
OT  - English as a foreign language learners
OT  - General self-efficacy
OT  - Meaning in life
OT  - Positive affect
COIS- The authors declare that they have no known competing financial interests or 
      personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work reported in 
      this paper
EDAT- 2023/06/05 13:04
MHDA- 2023/06/05 13:05
PMCR- 2023/05/22
CRDT- 2023/06/05 12:05
PHST- 2022/12/20 00:00 [received]
PHST- 2023/05/17 00:00 [revised]
PHST- 2023/05/19 00:00 [accepted]
PHST- 2023/06/05 13:05 [medline]
PHST- 2023/06/05 13:04 [pubmed]
PHST- 2023/06/05 12:05 [entrez]
PHST- 2023/05/22 00:00 [pmc-release]
AID - S2405-8440(23)03773-8 [pii]
AID - e16566 [pii]
AID - 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e16566 [doi]
PST - epublish
SO  - Heliyon. 2023 May 22;9(6):e16566. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e16566. eCollection 
      2023 Jun.