Relationship Between Trait Mindfulness And Creativity:Mediating Effect Of Emotion And Regulating Effect Of Emotional Intelligence

Purpose: creativity plays an important role in People's Daily life,study and work,and is of great significance to the progress of society and the improvement of life quality.It is worth thinking about how mindfulness,as a concept that is becoming active in all fields,might affect creativity.This study aims to :(1)analyze the predictive effect of trait mindfulness and emotion on creativity;(2)explore the mechanism of emotion and emotional intelligence in the influence of trait mindfulness on creativity.Methods:Ordinary people in wuhan were randomly selected to give questionnaires.The questionnaire includes five-factor mindfulness questionnaire,Williams creativity tendency scale,positive emotion negative emotion scale and emotional intelligence scale.The reliability of the scale was tested by factor analysis.Correlation analysis,regression analysis,and structural equation model were used to explore the mediating and regulating effects of emotion and emotional intelligence on the process of trait mindfulness affecting creativity.Results:(1)trait mindfulness is positively correlated with creativity,and can significantly predict creativity level.(2)trait mindfulness is related to emotion.Trait mindfulness is positively correlated with activated positive emotions and negatively correlated with inactive negative emotions.(3)emotion is related to creativity.There was a significant positive correlation between activated positive emotion and creativity.There was a significant negative correlation between inactive negative emotion and creativity.(4)trait mindfulness affects creativity through the dual pathways of emotion,and emotion(activated positive emotion and inactive negative emotion)plays a partial mediating role between trait mindfulness and creativity.Trait mindfulness positively affects creativity by activating positive emotions;Creativity is negatively affected by inactive negative emotions.(5)emotional intelligence has a regulating effect on the direct path that trait mindfulness affects creativity.In other words,compared with individuals with high emotional intelligence,trait mindfulness has more significant influence on creativity.Conclusion: it verifies the predictive effect of trait mindfulness on creativity.Activated positive emotion and inactive negative emotion play two mediating roles in the process of trait mindfulness influencing creativity,in which emotional intelligence plays a mediating role.