Kaufman, James C. and Glăveanu, Vlad Petre
ORCID: 0000-0002-6029-6718
(2025)
The Products of the Process: Toward Exploring and Expanding the Benefits of Being Creative.
Journal of Creative Behavior, 59
(1).
ISSN 2162-6057
Abstract
The traditionally studied positive outcomes of creativity tend to be product-focused, such as Big-C contributions, good grades, or strong work performance. This paper makes an argument for the importance of less-discussed products of the process—the benefits that arise from being creative, regardless of one's abilities or level of achievement. These positive outcomes are more tied to such meaning-related concepts as self-understanding, feeling one's life is significant and worth living, and gaining both short-term and long-term purposes. In highlighting these potential consequences of being creative, we get to question clear separations between processes and products in the field of creativity studies and show that engaging in the creative process itself “produces” experiences that are less tangible or even noticeable but by no means unimportant.
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| Item Type: | Article (Published) |
|---|---|
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Creativity; meaning; purpose; creative process; creative product |
| Subjects: | Business > Innovation Social Sciences > Education |
| DCU Faculties and Centres: | DCU Faculties and Schools > DCU Business School Research Institutes and Centres > Centre for Possibility Studies |
| Publisher: | John Wiley & Sons |
| Official URL: | https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/jo... |
| Copyright Information: | Creative Education Foundation (CEF) |
| ID Code: | 33099 |
| Deposited On: | 04 Sep 2026 08:58 by Tam Nguyen . Last Modified 04 Sep 2026 08:58 |
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