ArticleAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences2019
Effects of creativity on social and behavioral adjustment in 7- to 11-year-old children.
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- Arts engagement for mental health: A strengths-based opportunity.PLOS mental health · 2025Article
- Creative pursuits for mental health and well-being.Indian journal of psychiatry · 2024Article
- Associations between extracurricular arts activities, school-based arts engagement, and subsequent externalising behaviours in the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- A Positive Association between Working Memory Capacity and Human Creativity: A Meta-Analytic Evidence.Journal of Intelligence · 2023Article
- Let us progress! Implementing professionally led arts-based programming in senior centers.Educational gerontology · 2022Article
- How leisure activities affect health: a narrative review and multi-level theoretical framework of mechanisms of action.The lancet. Psychiatry · 2021Review
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Abstract
This study sought to explore whether creativity in undertaking activities such as free writing, telling a story, crafts, painting, drawing, or drama at age 7 is associated with a lower risk of social and behavioral maladjustment in children at the onset of adolescence. Data from 7558 7-year-olds who were socially and behaviorally "stable" at baseline were analyzed from the nationally representative National Child Development Study. Multinomial regression analyses showed associations between teacher-rated creativity at age 7 and a lower relative risk of social and behavioral instability and maladjustment at age 11. Specifically, the associations were found between moderate and marked creativity and a lower risk of symptoms of internalizing behaviors (including depression and withdrawal), externalizing behaviors (such as restlessness) as well as a lower risk of various nervous symptoms of social and behavioral instability and maladjustment. Associations were independent of social, demographic, educational, parental, academic, and personality covariates, and robust to a range of sensitivity analyses. These results suggest that facilitating engagement with creative activities could be explored further as a way of reducing levels of instability and maladjustment at the onset of adolescence.
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