Creativity, self-expression and leisure

Self-awareness, self-evaluation, and creativity.

The present research examined when self-evaluation influences creativity. Based on objective self-awareness theory, the authors predicted that feeling able to improve would buffer against the detrimental effects of self-evaluation on creativity. Two experiments manipulated self-evaluation (varying self-awareness, Study 1; providing objective performance standards, Study 2) and perceived ability...

Examining self-training procedures in leisure swimming.

This study investigated contents of training sessions from 387 regular swimmers involved in a recreational workout without supervision. We did use multiple correspondences analysis in order to identify self-trained swimmers typology in a sample from a social networking website, focusing on swimming practice. Self-reported parameters (n = 12) were age, gender, practice frequency, supervision in ...

Adaptive Sport as Serious Leisure: Do Self-Determination, Skill Level, and Leisure Constraints Matter?

Supporting Creativity Within Web-based Self-services

Web-based customization self-services allow and encourage a diverse set of consumers to engage in creative work. In the nottoo-distant past most consumers purchased mass-manufactured products from a physical store, whereas today people can remotely acquire a variety of individually tailored items ranging from sneakers to wedding invitations. Increasingly, companies provide online configurator s...

Creativity and self-organization: contributions from cognitive science and semiotics

What sort of contribution has Cognitive Science to offer to the understanding of creativity? Is it appropriate to investigate creative processes from a mechanistic perspective or do they involve subjective elements which cannot in principle be investigated from such a perspective? These two basic questions will guide this paper which investigates creativity focusing on the nature of abductive r...