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Christian Byrge, Chaoying Tang

Thinking Skills and Creativity

Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved

2015

16

18711871

51-61

Creativity training , Creative self-efficacy , Enhancing creativity , Teaching creativity , Developing creativity

This paper presents a study on the effect of a new program of embodied creativity trainingon the trainees’ creative self-efficacy and creative production. In the training program 180trainees were trained for 39 h over a period of nine weeks. Trainee’s creative self-efficacyand creative production (originality, elaboration and fluency) were tested pre and postof the training. One month after the program finished, representatives of trainees and alltrainers were interviewed in order to develop a qualitative understanding of the effects andpotential improvements of the training program. The results show a significant increase increative self-efficacy as well as in creative production. Implications for embodied creativitytraining are discussed

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