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  • Educational Psychology
  • Cognitive Science
  • Behavioral Science

Background:

  • Aggressive behaviors and creativity in students are typically addressed as separate educational goals.
  • Emerging evidence suggests underlying links between aggression and creativity, including shared cognitive mechanisms.
  • Existing interventions for aggression may have limited effectiveness and potentially negative impacts on creativity.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate if creative thinking training (CTT) can simultaneously reduce aggression and improve creativity in students.
  • To explore a novel intervention approach for addressing both aggression and creativity.
  • To assess the long-term efficacy and predictive relationship between creativity changes and aggression reduction.

Main Methods:

  • A four-session, two-week creative thinking training (CTT) intervention was implemented.
  • Participants included students identified with high aggression scores.
  • A control group was used for comparison to evaluate the intervention's impact.

Main Results:

  • The intervention group showed significant improvements in creativity compared to the control group.
  • Students in the intervention group exhibited a significant reduction in aggressive behaviors.
  • The positive effects of CTT on creativity and aggression persisted for up to six months post-intervention.

Conclusions:

  • Creative thinking training (CTT) offers a viable method for simultaneously decreasing student aggression and fostering creativity.
  • The increase in creativity following CTT was found to correlate with and predict the decrease in aggression.
  • CTT may provide a pathway to redirect aggressive tendencies into creative expression, offering a dual benefit for student development.