Based on the Attentional Control Theory(ACT)and the Creative Process Theory(CPT),this study ex-plored the relationship between creativity anxiety and real-life creativity(creative activities,CAct;creative a-chievements,CAch)and examined the potential chain mediating roles of cognitive flexibility(alternatives,AS;control,CS)and creative process engagement(problem identification,PI;information searching and encoding,ISE;idea generation,IG)between them.Four hundred and ten college students(M=20.320,SD=0.694)were recruited randomly.The results were as follows:(1)Creativity anxiety negatively predicted both creative ac-tivity(CAct)and creative achievement(CAch);(2)Creativity anxiety associates with creative activity(CAct)through the chain mediating effect of three paths(CA→AS→PI→CAct;CA→AS→IG→CAct;CA→CS→PI→CAct);(3)Creativity anxiety associates with creative achievement(CAch)through the chain mediating effect of another three paths(CA→AS→ISE→CAch;CA→AS→IG→CAch;CA→CS→ISE→CAch).This study is bene-ficial to understanding the underlying mechanism between creativity anxiety and real-life creativity and expanding the application scope of ACT and CPT.More importantly,these findings for intervening adverse effects of creativity anxiety on creative performance provide an adequate basis.
creativity anxietycognitive flexibilitycreative process engagementreal-life creativityundergraduate
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