Basic Version
Live
Am I eligible?
To take part you must be an English-speaking adult (18+) who engages in a creative discipline.
What will I do?
Answer ~10-minutes of questions about your demographics (anonymised), creative discipline, and experiences of flow states and wellbeing.
Advanced Version
Live
Am I eligible?
To take part you must (a) be an English-speaking adult (18+), (b) have at least two years experience in a creative discipline, and (c) spend at least 3 days per week engaging in a creative discipline
What will I do?
Registration (~15 mins)
You’ll answer questions about your demographics, creative discipline, wellbeing, and personality.
Daily survey (~8-mins daily for two weeks)
You’ll answer questions about your motivation, wellbeing, and flow states before (~3-min) and after (~4-min) engaging in your creative discipline. On days that don’t involve engagement in your creative discipline, you’ll just answer wellbeing questions (~1-min).
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Research study
The Creative Flow and Wellbeing Study
Department of Psychology,
Goldsmiths, University of London,
Lewisham Way,
London, SE14 6NW
Project partners:
This online survey studies whether people that experience more flow states through engagement with a creative discipline also experience a higher sense of wellbeing in their lives. There is a basic (10-min) or advanced (2-week) version.
Participant Information
What is a flow state?
A mental state where you feel motivated to keep engaging in a challenging activity. It feels rewarding, your actions feel effortless, and your attention is completely absorbed in the present moment.
What is a creative discipline?
The repeated application of innovation and imagination to create, practice, and/or perform original ideas and solutions. Creative disciplines are commonly seen in the arts but can span to any field.
What is Creative Empirical?
A research group from the Department of Psychology at Goldsmiths University that studies creativity psychology.
Research purpose
To understand the relationship between flow states and wellbeing in creatives. This research will also contribute to a PhD thesis.
Your participation
Voluntary. You cannot skip questions but you can withdraw your participation at any time without providing a reason and can withdraw data within 7 days of submitting it.
Risks and benefits
After completion, you’ll get a personalised results report that gives insights about your responses. You’ll be able to compare your responses to others anonymously. We anticipate reports being ready by late 2024. No risks are anticipated.
Data confidentiality
Responses are anonymised. Emails, if provided, are encrypted and stored separately from responses. In some questions, response duration data will also be collected to detect satisficing. You can include your unique ID in an email to odurc001@gold.ac.uk requesting withdraw your data if desired. You can click the "?" button at the top of every page of the survey to obtain this unique ID and repeat these instructions. You have up to 7 calendar days to request data withdrawal after completing the survey. Beyond this period, results may have been published online, preventing data deletion.
Data handling complies with GDPR and the Goldsmiths data protection policy, which you can read more about here. This study has ethical approval from Goldsmiths' Department of Psychology Research Ethics Committee and aligns with the Universities UK Research Integrity Concordat.
Data is stored in a Microsoft OneDrive cloud server, which is protected with two factor authentication on two password protected devices. Only Oliver Durcan (primary researcher) has access to raw data files.
Results
May be published on the Open Science Framework (https://osf.io/) and in academic journals and dissertations. Your responses will never be personally identifiable
Contact Information
Queries and technical problems
Complaints
Research study
The Creative Flow and Wellbeing Study
Department of Psychology,
Goldsmiths, University of London,
Lewisham Way,
London, SE14 6NW
Project team: Oliver Durcan, Zala Kodric, George Musgrave, Joydeep Bhattacharya, Peter Holland
Project partners:
This online survey studies whether people that experience more flow states through engagement with a creative discipline also experience a higher sense of wellbeing in their lives.
There is a basic (10-min) or advanced (2-week) version. Please read the participant information before starting the surveys.
Participant Information
What is a flow state?
A mental state where you feel motivated to keep engaging in a challenging activity. It feels rewarding, your actions feel effortless, and your attention is completely absorbed in the present moment.
What is a creative discipline?
The repeated application of innovation and imagination to create, practice, and/or perform original ideas and solutions. Creative disciplines are commonly seen in the arts but can span to any field.
What is Creative Empirical?
A research group from the Department of Psychology at Goldsmiths University that studies creativity psychology.
Research purpose
To understand the relationship between flow states and wellbeing in creatives. This research will also contribute to a PhD thesis.
Your participation
Voluntary. You cannot skip questions but you can withdraw your participation at any time without providing a reason and can withdraw data within 7 days of submitting it.
Risks and benefits
After completion, you’ll get a personalised results report that gives insights about your responses. You’ll be able to compare your responses to others anonymously. We anticipate reports being ready by late 2024. No risks are anticipated.
Data confidentiality
Responses are anonymised. Emails, if provided, are encrypted and stored separately from responses. In some questions, response duration data will also be collected to detect satisficing. You can include your unique ID in an email to odurc001@gold.ac.uk requesting withdraw your data if desired. You can click the "?" button at the top of every page of the survey to obtain this unique ID and repeat these instructions. You have up to 7 calendar days to request data withdrawal after completing the survey. Beyond this period, results may have been published online, preventing data deletion.
Data handling complies with GDPR and the Goldsmiths data protection policy, which you can read more about here. This study has ethical approval from Goldsmiths' Department of Psychology Research Ethics Committee and aligns with the Universities UK Research Integrity Concordat.
Data is stored in a Microsoft OneDrive cloud server, which is protected with two factor authentication on two password protected devices. Only Oliver Durcan (primary researcher) has access to raw data files.
Results
May be published on the Open Science Framework (https://osf.io/) and in academic journals and dissertations. Your responses will never be personally identifiable.
Contact Information
Queries and technical problems
Complaints
Results Portal
Take the Basic Version
Who is eligible?
English-speaking adults (18+) with a creative discipline.
What will you do?
Answer ~10-minutes of questions about your demographics (anonymised), creative discipline, and experiences of flow states and wellbeing.
Take the Advanced Version
Who is eligible?
(a) English-speaking adults (18+)
(b) Have at least 2-years experience in a creative discipline
(c) Spend at least 3-days per week engaging in a creative discipline
(b) Have at least 2-years experience in a creative discipline
(c) Spend at least 3-days per week engaging in a creative discipline
What will you do?
Registration (~15 mins)
Daily survey (~8-mins daily for two weeks)
You’ll answer questions about your motivation, wellbeing, and flow states before (~3-min) and after (~4-min) engaging in your creative discipline. On days that don’t involve engagement in your creative discipline, you’ll just answer wellbeing questions (~1-min).