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Different Effects of Cognitive Shifting and Intelligence on Creativity
Author(s) -
Pan Xuan,
Yu Huihong
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
the journal of creative behavior
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.896
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 2162-6057
pISSN - 0022-0175
DOI - 10.1002/jocb.144
Subject(s) - creativity , originality , psychology , fluency , divergent thinking , cognition , cognitive flexibility , structural equation modeling , cognitive psychology , flexibility (engineering) , executive functions , creativity technique , control (management) , social psychology , mathematics education , computer science , artificial intelligence , management , neuroscience , machine learning , economics
Abstract The relationship between creativity and executive control has long been controversial. Some researchers view creative thinking as a defocused process with little executive control involvement, whereas others claim that executive control plays a vital role in creative thinking. In this study, we focused on one subcomponent of executive control, cognitive shifting, and examined its relationship with creativity by using latent variable analysis and structural equation modeling. We also analyzed whether this relation was mediated by intelligence. The results showed that: (a) cognitive shifting ability had a positive relationship with creativity, but only on the quantitative aspects (fluency and flexibility); (b) Intelligence had a positive relationship with both quantitative and qualitative aspects (originality) of creativity, and its effect on qualitative aspect was stronger than that on the quantitative aspect; (c) There was a mediating effect of intelligence on the relationship between creativity cognitive and shifting.