Creativity and well-being are popular subjects in psychological and organizational studies. The recent literature presented mixed perspectives about the nature of the relationship between the two. Whereas the mad-genius hypothesis, which was often explored among eminently creative individuals, seems to imply a negative relationship between the two, trends in the field of creativity, such as everyday creativity and general psychology (i.e., positive psychology) linked them positively. The present meta-analysis study synthesized 189 effect sizes obtained from 32 samples in 26 different studies based on a total sample of 8,189. Analyses with multilevel modeling yielded a mean effect of r = .14. The moderator analysis tested the impact of age, gender, measure of creativity, measure of well-being, stimulus type of creativity measure, and index of creativity measure. Only the creativity measure explained the variation in the study outcomes. The relationship between creativity and well-being was significantly higher when creativity was measured by instruments focusing on creative activity and behavior (r = .22) than the divergent thinking tasks (r = .06). Those findings are discussed in terms of theoretical and practical implications.

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创造力和幸福感：元分析

创造力和幸福感是心理学和组织研究中的热门主题。最近的文献对两者之间关系的性质提出了不同的观点。疯狂天才假说经常在极具创造力的个体中进行探索，似乎暗示两者之间存在负相关关系，而创造力领域的趋势，如日常创造力和一般心理学（即积极心理学）则将它们正相关。本荟萃分析研究综合了从 26 项不同研究的 32 个样本中获得的 189 个效应量，总样本数为 8,189。多级建模分析产生了r的平均效应 = .14。调节器分析测试了年龄、性别、创造力测量、幸福感测量、创造力测量刺激类型和创造力测量指数的影响。只有创造力测量解释了研究结果的变化。当通过专注于创造性活动和行为的工具 ( r  = .22)测量创造力时，创造力和幸福感之间的关系明显高于发散性思维任务 ( r  = .06)。这些发现将根据理论和实践意义进行讨论。