Forgeard (2019)

Question 1

Creative undertakings

Answer 1

Defined as activities during which individuals generate potentially novel and useful ideas or products

Question 2

Art theraphy

Answer 2

Individuals are provided with a space to potentially come up with novel and meaningful ways of expressing themselves. Can help address a wide range of challenges and consists of using artistic activities to increase awareness of and reflect on personal experiences, stimulate cognition, and engage in a potentially pleasurable activity

Question 3

Expressive writing

Answer 3

Enhances a wide range of health outcomes. During an expressive writing task, individuals describe past events they have experienced and are provided with the opportunity to process difficult personal experiences

Question 4

Openness to experience

Answer 4

Reflects individual differences in the ability and tendency to seek, detect, comprehend, utilise, and appreciate complex patterns of information, both sensory and abstract. It is one of the best predictors of creative achievement. May also help with stress regulation by preventing maladaptive suppression or avoidance-based coping strategies

Question 5

Creative self-efficacy

Answer 5

The subjective belief that one is able to come up with novel and useful ideas, products, or behaviours. Interesting because it is directly linked to the core process hypothesised to be responsible for healing; the capacity to engage in creative thinking and/or behaviour

Question 6

Self-efficacy

Answer 6

The degree to which individuals perceive that they can control events in their lives and take action to solve problems