Artistic creativity and its relationship to psychological flowamong students of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Al-Aqsa University
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https://doi.org/10.35560/jcofarts1769Keywords:
Artistic Creativity, Psychological Flow, Flow ExperienceAbstract
The current study aimed to identify the possibility of artistic creativity and its relationship to the psychological flow of students in the Faculty of Fine Arts at Al-Aqsa University, as well as the study aimed to identify the level of both artistic creativity and psychological flow. The academic semester (2022-2023), and to achieve the objectives of the study, the researcher used the descriptive approach, and the artistic creativity scale prepared by (Al-Qeeq, 2007), and the psychological flow scale prepared by (Jackson & marsh, 1996) and translated by (Al-Aqili and Al-Muhammadawi, 2015), and the researcher used Appropriate statistical methods to answer the study's questions and verify its hypotheses, including: the arithmetic mean, the standard deviation, the Pearson correlation coefficient, and the partial and multiple regression coefficients.
The study reached the following results:
- The arithmetic mean of psychological flow is (81.3%), which is a high level.
- The arithmetic mean of artistic creativity is (82.2%), which is a high level.
- There is a statistically significant positive relationship at the level (0.01) between the scores of each of the psychological flow and artistic creativity among students of the Faculty of Fine Arts at Al-Aqsa University, and the correlation coefficient reached (0.535).
- There are no statistically significant differences between the psychological flow and the common interactions: gender, academic level, specialization.
- There are no statistically significant differences between artistic creativity and common interactions: gender, academic level, and specialization.
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