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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. |
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| Link to article | https://doi.org/10.1080/17439760.2013.848376 |
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| 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. |
positive affect has been shown to be important in achieving psychological and physical well-being and is associated with improved cognitive function and mental health fredrickson ; seligman & csikszentmihalyi. this study also aims to examine whether mood and divergent thinking processes could be altered even after very short durations of engagement in activity. differences between groups in the degree of engagement enjoyment awkwardness and how freely they engaged with their task were tested with kruskal wallis test. but no signicant differences were found in the reported degree of engagement by participants in the dance condi- tion in comparison to the other experimental conditions dance vs. notably there were very similar improvements in measures of well-being in participants in the music condition. the second objective of this study was to examine the relationship between the enhancement of emotional well-being and divergent thinking processes.
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