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The COVID-19 Experience: Creativity as an Identity Attractor for Young People Facing the Developmental Challenges

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  • Luigia Simona Sica

    (Department of Humanities, University of Naples Federico II, 80133 Naples, Italy)

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The study focuses on identifying the impacts of the COVID experience on young people and exploring whether, during the pandemic period, adolescents and young adults resorted to flexible and creative coping strategies, which may have served as resources. The participants consisted of 70 Italian freshmen (18 males and 52 females) aged 18 to 21, attending their first year of university. Adopting a narrative approach, we identified seven creativity functions and two interpretative factors, supporting the idea that creativity may have constituted a psychological resource for young people during the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, the findings suggest that creativity can be configured as an identity attractor. Implications and future research directions are discussed.

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  • Luigia Simona Sica, 2022. "The COVID-19 Experience: Creativity as an Identity Attractor for Young People Facing the Developmental Challenges," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 19(15), pages 1-13, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:gam:jijerp:v:19:y:2022:i:15:p:8913-:d:869199
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    1. Theresa Pauly & Li Chu & Elizabeth Zambrano & Denis Gerstorf & Christiane A Hoppmann, 2022. "COVID-19, Time to Oneself, and Loneliness: Creativity as a Resource," The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, The Gerontological Society of America, vol. 77(4), pages 30-35.
    2. Theresa Pauly & Li Chu & Elizabeth Zambrano & Denis Gerstorf & Christiane A Hoppmann, 2022. "Corrigendum to: COVID-19, Time to Oneself, and Loneliness: Creativity as a Resource," The Journals of Gerontology: Series B, The Gerontological Society of America, vol. 77(4), pages 95-95.
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