Psychological resilience-related functional connectomes predict creative personality

Both psychological resilience and creativity are complex concepts that have positive effects on individual adaptation. Previous studies have shown overlaps between the key brain regions or brain functional networks related to psychological resilience and creativity. However, no direct experimental evidence has been provided to support the assumption that psychological resilience and creativity share a common brain basis. Therefore, the present study investigated the relationship between psychological resilience and creativity using neural imaging method with a machine learning approach. At the behavioral level, we found that psychological resilience was positively related to creative personality. Predictive analysis based on static functional connectivity (FC) and dynamic FC demonstrated that FCs related to psychological resilience could effectively predict an individual's creative personality score. Both the static FC and dynamic FC were mainly located in the default mode network. These results prove that psychological resilience and creativity share a common brain functional basis. These findings also provide insights into the possibility of promoting individual positive adaptation from negative events or situations in a creative way. This study combined neural imaging with a machine learning approach to investigate the relationship between psychological resilience and creativity. Predictive analysis demonstrated that functional connectivity combined with psychological resilience could effectively predict an individual's creative personality score. These findings suggest that psychological resilience and creativity share some common cognitive neural mechanisms.

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Both psychological resilience and creativity have positive effects on individual adaptation and show overlaps in brain regions and functional networks. This study demonstrates that psychological resilience and creativity share a common brain functional basis and provides insights into promoting individual positive adaptation through creative ways.