Affiliation:
1. MOE Key Laboratory of Modern Teaching Technology, Shaanxi Normal University, Xi’an, China
2. School of English Studies, Xi’an International Studies University, Xi’an, China
Abstract
This study attempted to examine the mechanism of the impact of Addiction-Prone Personality (APP) on creative cognitive styles (idea generation, idea selection), especially to explore the mediating role of novelty seeking and the moderating role of depression tendency on the relationship between APP and creative cognitive styles. College students ( N = 576, 79% female) participated in and completed measures of APP, idea generation and selection, novelty seeking, and depression tendency. Results showed that (1) APP was positively related with idea generation while negatively related with idea selection; (2) novelty seeking played a partial mediating role in the relationship between APP and idea generation and a suppressing effect between APP and idea selection; (3) depression tendency moderated the indirect relationship between APP and creative cognitive styles through novelty seeking. Therefore, APP has different indirect effects on idea generation and idea selection via novelty seeking. When there was a higher depression tendency, there was a stronger indirect effect. The study highlights the significant importance of the underlying processes between APP and creative cognitive styles and offers implications for rethinking the relationship between addiction and creativity.
Funder
Natural Science Foundation of China
the Humanity and Social Science Youth Foundation of the Ministry of Education of China
the Natural Science Basic Research Program of Shaanxi
the Research Program Fund of the Collaborative Innovation Center of Assessment toward Basic Education Quality at Beijing Normal University
the Shaanxi Provincial Research Project on Major Theoretical and Practical Issues in Philosophy and Social Sciences
the Research Project of Graduate Education and Teaching Reform of Shaanxi Normal University
the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities
the Innovation Capability Support Program of Shaanxi Province, China