Emotional Creativity as a Factor of Individual and Family Psychological Wellbeing

Abstract

The article describes the results of a comprehensive psychological study that identified the relationship between emotional creativity with such indicators of individual psychological wellbeing as hardiness and subjective quality of life, and the role of emotional creativity of parents in formation of emotional and psychological wellbeing of teenagers in family. Also, the interrelations between mothers’ emotional creativity and sons’ assertiveness and daughters’ self-attitude were found. The authors came to the conclusion that emotional creativity can be as one of the increase mechanisms of hardiness in difficult non-standard life situations that are beyond the scope of general life experience and also can be as a factor of individual and family psychological wellbeing of adults and children in family.

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