Effects of contextual creativity and other contextual factors

Contextual creativity, which was aggregate creativity at the regional or college level, displayed both favorable and unfavorable effects. Specifically, contextual creativity showed significant positive effects on the student’s self-esteem, forgiveness, and values for religion and extracurricular activity, and significant negative effects on the student’s life satisfaction, optimism, future orientation, affiliative humor, dialecticism, and political activity value. The positive effects on self-esteem and forgiveness count as favorable, whereas the negative effects on life satisfaction, optimism, future orientation, affiliative humor, and dialecticism count as unfavorable. Essentially, contextual creativity did not consistently sustain the student’s happiness, meaningfulness, and freedom, which are well-being factors that typically result in favorable consequences. Thus, contextual creativity is not clearly favorable on the consequentialist account.