How Non-Intellectual Factors influence Creative Thinking

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2 Introduction 1
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How Non-Intellectual Factors influence Creative Thinking

Introduction

Non-intellectual factors play an important role in engaging intelligence of people and

for making people successful by forming self-education and self-learning ability along
with successful psychology. Non-intellectual factors are core element in developing
personality of an individual. These factors include motivation, interest and emotion of
an individual, learning habits, personal characteristics of people and their attitude (Yu,
2015).

The importance of considering the role of Non-intellectual factors in life on an

individual lies in the fact that they are more modifiable, which helps experts and
professionals to deal with them to measure success and wellbeing of people. Studies
by Laidra et al (2007) and Poropat (2009) measured that how intelligence and
personality of an individual has been correlated with success of school students of
first and second grade, showing that academic performance of students is linked to
Big Five Model (OCEAN)(Costa and McCrae, 2008). Richardson et al (2012)
distributed non-intellectual factors in five areas including motivation, strategies of
self-regulation, learning approaches, personality traits, and influence of psychological
situation.

Creativity is a dynamic personality trait of any individual while creative thinking let
you consider things from different perspectives. Every individual possess their
potential for creativity, which can be further cultivated and developed in a safe and
suitable environment. A creative individual need commitment and passion, a new
perspective of observing things, empathetic people, willingness to take risk, and
working hard to convince people that the new innovative idea is better to try.
Creativity can be nurtured or inhibited by external pressure. An individual who get
relevant information and categories and critically evaluate the available information,
is more creative and know which information to look for (Mumford et al., 2003).
Non-intellectual factors play role in creative thinking of an individual as study
conducted by Feist (1998), indicated that people who are creative are more open to
new experience, less conscientious, have high self-confidence, ambitious, dominant
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less conventional and impulsive in nature. Another study conducted by Amabile

(1996) showed that people who fee motivated by their interest, satisfaction and
enjoyment can be more creative as compared to other people. Ivcevic provided
reliable evidence that positive mood of an individual cane enhance flow of creative
ideas by broadening the attention span of an individual. It was also noticed that
divergent thinking can be boosted by using meditation and mind wandering strategies
as emotion regulation processes (Ivcevic et al., 2023).

Overall, these non-intellectual factors can enhance or impede creative thinking.

Recognizing and working on these non-intellectual factors can help individuals in
cultivating a more creative and innovative environment.

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Ivcevic, Z., Hoffmann, J. D., & Kaufman, J. C. (Eds.). (2023). The Cambridge
Handbook of Creativity and Emotions. Cambridge University Press.
Laidra, K., Pullmann, H., & Allik, J. (2007). Personality and intelligence as predictors
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Yu, L. (2015, May). The Functions of Non-intelligence Factors on University English

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