The Surprising Negative Link Between Creative Extracurricular Activities and Creative Thinking in PISA 2022

• In Event: Creativity, AI, and Learning

Abstract

While skill development is generally linked to relevant practice, the 2022 PISA creative thinking report revealed a negative association between students’ creative thinking performance and their engagement in creative activities. This study explored whether this negative association was linear, persisted across countries and remained after accounting for psychological and contextual moderators. We conducted correlation analysis and multiple regression with creative thinking as the outcome and creative activities as well as other factors, and their two-way interactions with creative activities as predictors. After controlling for other predictors, both types of activities remained negative predictors of creativity. However, the interactions revealed that openness to intellect, creative self-efficacy and psychological safety at school significantly moderated the relation between activities and creative thinking.

Authors

• Sofiia Kagan, University of Georgia

• Denis Dumas, University of Georgia

• Yoojoong Kim, University of Georgia