Having creative employees can help companies come up with new ideas and innovative solutions, which in turn can boost profits. But if employees are constantly engaged in creative work, it can actually lead to a deterioration in their lifestyle, according to a new study from the University of Illinois.
Scientists conducted several experiments with almost three and a half thousand participants and found that strong involvement in creating creative tasks subsequently leads to more uncontrollable behavior. For example, overeating, alcohol abuse, or refusal to exercise.
"All the previous research has focused on how to make people more linkedin database creative, assuming that creativity is one of the most important qualities for work. But creative work involves going beyond the box and breaking the rules, andWhen a person thinks broadly, it usually makes him less focused, which affects his daily choices"," explains lead author of the study, Professor Jack Gonzalo.
According to scientists, the creative process triggers a behavioral activation system that increases people's desires and rewards. For some people, creative work is hard work, and its effects spill over into other areas of life. So when employees have to make other kinds of decisions, such as how to spend an evening or what to eat for dinner,they no longer have the strength to somehow control themselves. Often they want to receive some kind of reward and please themselves - eat a candy instead of an apple or drink one more bottle of beer.
The study's authors believe that managers and business owners should take the study's findings into account in their company's operations.It is worth paying attention to health problems in people who regularly engage in creative work, because such work has a psychological impact on them."We don't yet fully know what the impact is because we're just starting to do research in this area, but the data we've collected suggests that it could be negative," says Jack Gonzalo.
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