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Depressive Symptoms Are Positively Linked to Malevolent Creativity: A Novel Perspective on the Maladaptive Nature of Revenge Ideation

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العنوان: Depressive Symptoms Are Positively Linked to Malevolent Creativity: A Novel Perspective on the Maladaptive Nature of Revenge Ideation
اللغة: English
المؤلفون: Perchtold-Stefan, Corinna M. (ORCID 0000-0002-8334-0574), Rominger, Christian (ORCID 0000-0003-3195-4555), Fink, Andreas (ORCID 0000-0001-7316-3140)
المصدر: Journal of Creative Behavior. Jun 2023 57(2):319-330.
الإتاحة: Wiley. Available from: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030. Tel: 800-835-6770; e-mail: cs-journals@wiley.com; Web site: https://www.wiley.com/en-us
Peer Reviewed: Y
Page Count: 12
تاريخ النشر: 2023
نوع الوثيقة: Journal Articles
Reports - Research
Descriptors: Depression (Psychology), Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Creativity, Antisocial Behavior, Gender Differences, Psychological Patterns
DOI: 10.1002/jocb.580
تدمد: 0022-0175
2162-6057
مستخلص: Depressed mood has attracted little attention in creativity research. By comparison, psychotherapeutic studies have repeatedly associated depressive symptomatology with increased revenge ideation. Combining creativity and retaliatory ideation, the present study examined whether self-reported subclinical depressive symptoms are linked to malevolent creativity -- creativity used for the purpose of damaging others -- in a psychometric test. In a sample of n = 259 participants, overall depressive symptoms were positively associated with malevolent creativity. Sensitivity analyses confirmed this link for motivational and interactional symptoms, but not cognitive symptoms of depression. As a gender-specific finding, malevolent creativity was positively linked to emotional symptoms of depression in women, but not men. Our findings hint at the possibility that mood impairments through depressive symptoms may facilitate malevolent creative ideation through increased impulsivity, reduced self-regulation, and protracted anger rumination. Following recommendations regarding more focused investigations into the vast research complex of psychopathology and creativity, this study emphasizes negative mood as a risk factor for the occurrence of harmful creative ideation, and thus, presents a novel perspective on the intricate link between internalizing and externalizing symptomatology.
Abstractor: As Provided
Entry Date: 2023
رقم الأكسشن: EJ1381111
قاعدة البيانات: ERIC
الوصف
تدمد:0022-0175
2162-6057
DOI:10.1002/jocb.580