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| Id | 70 | |
| Author | Campion, M.; Levita, L. | |
| Title | Enhancing positive affect and divergent thinking abilities: Play some music and dance. | |
| Reference | Campion, M., & Levita, L. (2014). Enhancing positive affect and divergent thinking abilities: Play some music and dance. The Journal of Positive Psychology, 9(2), 137-145. |
Link to article | https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2013.848376 |
| Abstract | This study compares the effect of dance on affect and cognition to music or exercise, in a young, non-clinical population. Participants were asked to complete tests of mood and creativity before and after spending 5 min either listening to music, dancing, cycling or sitting quietly. Both dancing and passively listening to music enhanced positive affect, decreased negative affect and reduced feelings of fatigue. Cycling and sitting quietly had no effect on positive mood or feelings of fatigue. Moreover, dancing and passively listening to music had dissociable effects on different aspects of creativity, with greater change in positive affect being associated with greater enhancement in measures of verbal and non-verbal creativity, respectively. We suggest that these findings support the use of either short duration dancing or passively listening to music as potentially powerful tools in enhancing emotional well-being and different aspects of divergent thinking in non-clinical settings. |
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| Both dancing and passively listening to music enhanced positive affect, decreased negative affect and reduced feelings of fatigue. . | Notably, there were very similar improvements in measures of well-being in participants in the music condition. . | This is particularly notable as increases in positive affect in the dance and music condition were correlated with improvements in different aspects of creativity. . | This study tests whether engagement in activities that previous studies suggest should induce positive mood would also be associated with an enhanced ability to think creatively. . | Furthermore, we postulated that, due to the interaction between exercise and music in the dance condition, the participants in this group would show greater improvements across all outcome measures of well-being and creativity. . | Dancing significantly increased positive affect and decreased negative affect and feelings of fatigue. . | Similarly to dancing, listening to music was also very effective in increasing emotional well-being and divergent thinking abilities. . | Together, these findings highlight an area for further research into the potential use of two different types of approaches, dancing as well as listening to music, in helping to enhance positive affect, decrease negative affect and reduce fatigue in both clinical and non-clinical settings.. | Notably, while both dancing and listening to music increased emotional well-being, they had dissociable effects on different aspects of divergent thinking, with greater change in positive affect being associated with greater enhancement in measures of verbal and non-verbal creativity, respectively. . | Nevertheless, the measures did identify significant changes in mood and creativity, and hence these findings could offer encouragement for people who are unaccustomed to or have little time for exercise. . | In addition, engagement in these active conditions would also be associated with an enhancement in measures of creativity. . |
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