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- Title
Creative Aspirations or Pipe Dreams? Toward Understanding Creative Mortification in Children and Adolescents.
- Authors
Beghetto, Ronald A.; Dilley, Anna E.
- Abstract
What experiences influence the development of creativity in children and adolescents? One experience is the mortification of creative aspirations. Creative mortification (CM) refers to the loss of one's willingness to pursue a particular creative aspiration following a negative performance outcome. The purpose of this article is to introduce an empirically testable model of CM. Specifically, the model highlights how CM can result from interpreting a negative performance outcome through the lens of internal attributions, fixed ability beliefs, and the experience of shame. The model further posits that young people's level of aspirational commitment, the feedback they receive, and their sociocultural context can moderate their interpretations and experiences of negative performance outcomes and CM.
- Subjects
CREATIVE ability in adolescence; CREATIVE ability in children; CREATIVE ability; MORTIFICATION; COMMITMENT (Psychology)
- Publication
New Directions for Child & Adolescent Development, 2016, Vol 2016, Issue 151, p85
- ISSN
1520-3247
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/cad.20150