Zahno, Stephan; Hossner, Ernst-Joachim (July 2022). Creativity in team sports: Enhancing players’ motor skills rather than divergent thinking fosters creative actions. In: 16th European Congress of Sport and Exercise Psychology FEPSAC. Padua. 11.-16.7.2022.
In team sports, developing creative players is widely discussed as a crucial – as well as challenging – objective. In respective empirical studies, creativity has predominantly been understood as a player’s divergent thinking (DT) ability and assessed with specific cognitive tests (Memmert, 2015). Numerous studies indicate that DT can be improved with training. So far, however, no empirical support has been provided for the underlying assumption that enhanced DT transfers to creative on-field actions. Alternatively, we hypothesize that players’ potential to perform creative actions is foremost rooted in their sensorimotor-skill repertoire rather than in DT. Both explanations were put to test in a series of studies consisting of two field-based experiments (I, II) and two correlational studies (I, II) in elite youth football. In field-based experiment I (N = 16; males; Mage = 12.90 +/- 0.27), improvements in DT did not manifest in more creative on-field actions. In contrast, players who received motor skill focussed training showed larger improvements not only in the functionality but also in the creativity of on-field actions. Correlational studies I (N = 33; males; Mage = 11.40 +/- 0.46) and II (N = 16; females; Mage = 17.51 +/- 0.81) perfectly support this finding indicating no correlations between on-field creativity and DT but moderate to large correlations between on-field creativity and motor-skill level. The results obtained in field-based experiment II (N = 34, males, Mage = 11.78 +/- 0.46) that was conducted recently to conclude the series of studies will be presented at the conference.
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Conference or Workshop Item (Abstract) |
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07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Sport Science (ISPW) 07 Faculty of Human Sciences > Institute of Sport Science (ISPW) > Movement and Exercise Science |
UniBE Contributor: |
Zahno, Stephan, Hossner, Ernst-Joachim |
Subjects: |
700 Arts > 790 Sports, games & entertainment |
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English |
Submitter: |
Edith Desideria Imthurn |
Date Deposited: |
30 Jan 2024 07:18 |
Last Modified: |
30 Jan 2024 07:18 |
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https://boris.unibe.ch/id/eprint/192215 |
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