http://hdl.handle.net/11320/19853 2026-06-01T16:28:47Z 2026-06-01T16:28:47Z Grygiel, Agnieszka http://hdl.handle.net/11320/19869 2026-03-19T09:49:45Z 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tytuł: Wielkie Nić / The Big Thread. Case Study Autorzy: Grygiel, Agnieszka Abstrakt: The aim of this case study is to describe the social project "Wielkie nić / The Big Thread" - the creation of embroidered messages - which has many features in common with children’s play. Just like play, it needs space, time and rules, but at the same time, also a lot of freedom. And neither need spectators. Moreover, the project - like a form of symbolic play, where children use abstract things to represent reality - has a metaphorical significance. The threads, used for common embroidery, truly connect people. They realize how much they have in common and how they need each other. This can give a sense of unity and community and even change their consciousness.

2017-01-01T00:00:00Z Kwaśniewska, Joanna Maria Lebuda, Izabela http://hdl.handle.net/11320/19868 2026-03-19T09:38:08Z 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tytuł: Balancing Between Roles and Duties – The Creativity of Mothers Autorzy: Kwaśniewska, Joanna Maria; Lebuda, Izabela Abstrakt: We raise two issues in the article at hand: how women who are mothers fulfil their creative needs, and what significance they ascribe to creativity in their role as mothers. A thematic analysis of structured interviews with twenty-seven women suggests that for mothers, creative activity mostly concerns fulfilling one’s responsibilities as part of the role taken on (be it parental or professional), and the main creative challenge they face is achieving a balance between their private and professional lives. Creativity in their role as mothers relates predominantly to two areas of activity: communication with the child and activities creating a climate conducive to the child’s development of creative ability. We discuss the obtained results in relation to those of previous research on the relationship between motherhood and creativity.

2017-01-01T00:00:00Z Kaya, Asli Nazife Cikis, Seniz http://hdl.handle.net/11320/19865 2026-03-19T08:50:43Z 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tytuł: Links Between Creative Performance and Post-Formal Thought Autorzy: Kaya, Asli Nazife; Cikis, Seniz Abstrakt: The aim of this study is to reveal relations between creativity in design and the cognitive developmental stages of designers within a Post-Piagetian approach. In this study design processes were deeply inspected with the aim of obtaining more comprehensive information about the effects of individual’s cognitive status on the design processes, problemsolving and quality of idea generation . In this field, studies done so far have been conducted on test results as indicators of creativity. Withinthe present study, however, protocol analyses were also evaluated, in addition to test results, and thanks to this addition, it was possible to determine the qualitative and quantitative effects of cognitive developmental stages on creativity. A total of twenty-five students voluntarily participated in the research. To collect data, two different methods were employed. The Social Paradigm Belief Inventory (SPBI), was employed to determine students' cognitive stages and scores, and the Think-aloud protocol was used to elicit verbal reports of the thought sequences of the students. In order to analyse the verbal reports reflecting designers' cognitive activities, the method of Linkography was conducted and the general statistics of segments were measured. To assess the relations between creativity in design and the cognitive developmental stages of the designers, SPBI scores and the general statistical values obtained from the design sessions were correlated. Findings showed that there is a strong and significant correlation between the cognitive development levels and creativity, in favour of dialectical thinking.

2017-01-01T00:00:00Z Lim, Jia-Wei Phang, Joo-Yee Low, Mei-Yan Tan, Chee-Seng http://hdl.handle.net/11320/19862 2026-03-19T07:43:03Z 2017-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tytuł: Procrastination is Detrimental to Undergraduate Students’ Self-Rated Creativity: The Mediating Role of State Anxiety Autorzy: Lim, Jia-Wei; Phang, Joo-Yee; Low, Mei-Yan; Tan, Chee-Seng Abstrakt: Procrastination has been found to negatively impact academic and job performance. However, little attention has been given to the effect of procrastination on creative performance. Moreover, past studies have mainly focused on the antecedent role of anxiety in procrastination. The impact of procrastination on anxiety is not clear, though literature has suggested that procrastination may induce anxiety. The primary question addressed in the present study is whether and how procrastination influences creativity. Some exceptional studies have indicated that procrastination allows incubation and hence is conducive to creativity. However, on the basis of the literature, we argued and hypothesized that procrastination may impair creativity through state anxiety. A total of 218 Malaysian undergraduate students were recruited via social networking sites and responded to a packet of online survey questionairres, including self-report of procrastination tendency, state and trait anxiety, and creativity. Results showed that procrastination was positively associated with state and trait anxiety and negatively correlated with creativity. A negative relationship was also observed between state and trait anxiety and creativity. In addition, mediation analysis supported our hypothesis that state anxiety mediates the relationship between procrastination and creativity after controlling for the effect of trait anxiety. Specifically, people tend to experience feeling anxious when they postpone task completion. The high level of anxiety, in turn, is negatively associated with creative performance. As a whole, the findings not only offer the first empirical evidence supportive of the detrimental effect of procrastination on creativity, but also reveal the underlying process. Future directions and limitations are also explored. Opis: Preliminary findings of the study were presented at the International Conference of Psychology and Social Science 2015 (ICPSS2015) in 15 December 2015, UTM, Johor, Malaysia. The work was the first three authors’ final year project which was supervised by the last author. The first three authors contributed equally and were listed alphabetically.

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