An Experimental Study On Emotional States Affecting High School Students' Remote Association

What effect emotion has on creativity? One view is that positive emotions promote creativity; negative emotions suppress creativity, while another view is to the contrary. Some researchers believe that moderate-intensity emotional state is more conducive to promote creativity. Although research has drawn a lot of valuable results, the impact on the creativity is studied mostly from emotional dimensions (valence or arousal), This study mainly explores impact of different emotional states on high school students'remote association through the ways of film-induced different emotional states, thus further speculates that impact of different emotional states on high school students'creativity. To the purpose of this study, we Conducted two researchers.Study 1A simple Chinese remote association is modified. The revised scale was administrated to 210 high school students to examine reliability and validity, showing that the Cronbach coefficient was 0.782, retest reliability is 0.912, and validity was 0.862. Thus, it indicates that the revised simple Chinese remote association scale has good reliability and validity, and can be an effective tool measuring high school students'remote association ability.Study 2"foreign Humor Collection"starts a positive mood,"Wen chuan earthquake documentary"starts a negative mood; the subjects get the self-assessment scores of simplified Chinese remote association test before and after the experiment, the 133 subjects are divided into four emotional states groups: positive high arousal emotions, positive low arousal emotions, negative high arousal emotions and negative low arousal emotions. Thus, the study 2 is to explore impact of the four emotional states on high school students'on Chinese remote association, and further explore effect of the different emotional states on high school students'creativity. Below are the main conclusions of this study.(A) In emotional valence perspective to analysis, positive emotion group is significantly higher than negative emotion group. That indicates that positive emotions can promote remote association ability, but negative emotions hinder remote association ability.(B) In emotional arousal perspective to analysis, low arousal state is more conducive to promote remote association than high arousal state of the same emotion. The score of positive low arousal emotion is significantly higher than that of positive high arousal emotion; the score of negative high arousal emotion is significantly lower than that of negative low arousal emotion.