The Effect of Mindfulness on the Promotion of Graduate Students' Scientific Research Creativity: The Chain Mediating Role of Flow Experience and Creative Self-Efficacy.
Journal of Intelligence February 21, 2024 Hao Yao, Yabing Fan, Shifei Duan 9 citations
Mindfulness directly boosts graduate students' scientific research creativity, and it also works indirectly through flow experience and creative self-efficacy. Among 1210 Chinese graduate students, the indirect effect via flow experience accounted for 13.1% of the total effect, via creative self-efficacy for 30.0%, and the chain of both for 34.1%. The overall positive effect of mindfulness on creativity was stronger for male students than for female students. These results suggest that mindfulness enhances creativity partly by increasing the tendency to become absorbed in research and by strengthening belief in one's own creative abilities.