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Perceived Social Support Increases Creativity: Experimental Evidence.

Chee-Seng Tan¹, Xi-Yuan Chin¹, Samuel Ta-Chuan Chng¹

¹Department of Psychology and Counselling, Faculty of Arts and Social Science, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR), Kampar 31900, Malaysia.

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Summary

Experimentally induced social support boosts creativity in young adults. This study provides causal evidence that enhancing perceived social support can improve creative thinking and performance.

Keywords:

Malaysia creativity divergent thinking experiment perceived social support

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Area of Science:

Psychology
Social Psychology
Cognitive Psychology

Background:

Existing literature indicates a positive correlation between social support and creativity.
The causal link between social support and creativity requires further empirical investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate the causal impact of experimentally induced perceived social support on creativity in young adults.
To explore how manipulating perceived social support affects creative self-efficacy and divergent thinking.

Main Methods:

An online experiment involving 135 Malaysian undergraduate students.
Participants completed creative self-efficacy scales, a perceived social support manipulation (writing task), and divergent thinking tests.
Multivariate analysis of covariance (MANOVA) was used to analyze the data, controlling for creative self-efficacy.

Main Results:

The experimental group, primed with social support, reported significantly higher perceived social support than the control group.
Participants in the experimental group demonstrated higher scores in all measures of creativity, including fluency, flexibility, and originality.
The manipulation effectively induced perceived social support, leading to enhanced creativity.

Conclusions:

Experimentally induced perceived social support causally enhances creativity in young adults.
Findings provide empirical support for the causal relationship between social support and creativity.
The study offers practical implications for developing creativity through social support interventions.