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Improving creativity performance by short-term meditation

Behavioral and brain functions, 2014-03, Vol.10 (1), p.9-9, Article 9 [Peer Reviewed Journal]

2014 Ding et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. ;Copyright © 2014 Ding et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2014 Ding et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. ;ISSN: 1744-9081 ;EISSN: 1744-9081 ;DOI: 10.1186/1744-9081-10-9 ;PMID: 24645871

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  • Title:
    Improving creativity performance by short-term meditation
  • Author: Ding, Xiaoqian ; Tang, Yi-Yuan ; Tang, Rongxiang ; Posner, Michael I
  • Subjects: Affect ; Attention ; Chinese medicine ; Creativity ; Female ; Humans ; Male ; Meditation ; Meditation - psychology ; Relaxation - psychology ; Studies ; Surveys and Questionnaires ; Variance analysis ; Young Adult
  • Is Part Of: Behavioral and brain functions, 2014-03, Vol.10 (1), p.9-9, Article 9
  • Description: One form of meditation intervention, the integrative body-mind training (IBMT) has been shown to improve attention, reduce stress and change self-reports of mood. In this paper we examine whether short-term IBMT can improve performance related to creativity and determine the role that mood may play in such improvement. Forty Chinese undergraduates were randomly assigned to short-term IBMT group or a relaxation training (RT) control group. Mood and creativity performance were assessed by the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS) and Torrance Tests of Creative Thinking (TTCT) questionnaire respectively. As predicted, the results indicated that short-term (30 min per day for 7 days) IBMT improved creativity performance on the divergent thinking task, and yielded better emotional regulation than RT. In addition, cross-lagged analysis indicated that both positive and negative affect may influence creativity in IBMT group (not RT group). Our results suggested that emotion-related creativity-promoting mechanism may be attributed to short-term meditation.
  • Publisher: England: BioMed Central
  • Language: English
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1744-9081
    EISSN: 1744-9081
    DOI: 10.1186/1744-9081-10-9
    PMID: 24645871
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