| This paper discusses the potential effects of aerobic exercise on creative potential both immediately follow aerobic exercise and one hour lag, moreover, we explore the mediating role of positive emotions.The positive impact of aerobic exercise on physiological function, especially for heart and lung function and structures, has been widely studied and validated. Until recently, the deep benefits of aerobic exercise on the psychological process and the structure has been addressed. One potential benefit of aerobic exercise on creativity has not been widespread concerned.Recently some research on creativity has investigated factors that may be influential in facilitating creativity, such as physical environment effects(McCoy & Evans, 2002), curiosity(Kashdan & Fincham, 2002), television(Valkenburg & van der Voort, 1994), relaxation and reward(Khasky & Smith, 1999). And the scope of committing to explore the influence factors is more and more widely. However, in this field, few studies have confirmed the physiological factors that may affect the level of creativity. Domestic related research very little involves, foreign research on the experimental materials and the process did not elaborate. Therefore, this study investigates the effect of aerobic exercise on creative potential.Fredrickson(2001) pretend broaden and built of positive emotion theory(Broaden-and-Built Theory), he considered positive emotion has function that action, expansion of cognition, the construction of individual resources and ease the pressure. Arent(2000) completed a meta analysis shows that physical exercise and the increased of adult individuals positive emotions with a significantly different, Basch(1996) proposed that positive emotions does not take up cognitive resources, but rather a direct impact on the cognitive process to promote creative. But weather positive emotion is the mediating role of physical exercise to creative still need to be further studied.For explore the effect of aerobic exercise on creative, and weather positive emotion is the mediating role between aerobic exercise and creative. The study designs two experiments to investigate the above problems.Experiment one used within subjects design, 48 subjects have participated in the three scheme of measurement, the difference of three schemes lies in the different plan exercise time after test of creative thinking scale. To explore the influence of physical exercise on creative is immediate or delayed, and further research of physical exercise on creative, including divergent thinking and convergent thinking, and creative thinking on specific dimensions fluency, flexibility and uniqueness of influence.Experiment two used between subjects design, in the conclusion of experiment one, to further explore the positive affect of physical exercise variables on creative. The 46 subjects were divided into control group and reference group, respectively, to complete the contemporary college students thinking test and subjective exercise experience test, the different is the intervention of physical exercise in the control group, finally the intermediate test program help us analysis positive emotions play the part of mediating role on aerobic excise to creative.In the first experiment, we investigate the effects of exercise on creativity. As a result, UCI of plan A test score of 26.70±3.83. UCI after the plan B test score is 32.33±5.88, and UCI after the plan C test score to 30.93±4.84. The A、B、C three scheme for pairwise comparison, the scheme a and B scheme comparison, the average difference for-5.633, standard error of 1.267, p<0.01, in comparison of plan A and C, mean difference for-4.233, and standard error is 1.115, p<0.01, plan B and plan C of pairwise comparisons, this difference does not significantly(p>0.05). Through further analysis, the exercise on fluency and uniqueness effect is significant(fluency F=4.066, p<0.01; uniqueness F=6.45, p<0.01). Effect of flexibility is not significant(p>0.05). Influence of divergent thinking is significant(p<0.01), while the effect of divergent thinking is not significant(p >0.05); in experiment two, experimental results show that physical exercise on creativity(βc =0.733, t=8.215, p<0.01), positive emotion on creativity( βb=0.841, t=12.131, p<0.01) were significant, so the mediating effect of positive emotion significantly, when positive emotion as independent variables in the regression equation after physical exercise on the creative force of decomposition and release still reached significant level(βc’=0.435, t=7.984, p<0.01), therefore, the definition of Baron and Kenny the mediating effect is not established, so the mediating effect of positive emotion is not completely intermediary role, which is part of the mediating effect. Part of the mediating effect to the total effect is 52.9%.The results of two experiments based on statistical analysis, obtained the following conclusions:(1) Physical exercise influence immediately and lag of the creative, this effect lasted at least an hour after exercise.(2) The positive emotion plays a partial intermediary role in the relationship between physical exercise and creative. |
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