A Study on association between Empathy and Creativity and the influence of Generative AI Usage among Young Adults

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The relationship between empathy and creativity has been studied by researchers in the past. This relationship could be moderated by generative AI usage. Empathy is an ability that allows a person to comprehend, share and navigate the emotional states of others. Creativity is a mental process that generates ideas, solutions or products which are novel and useful. Generative AI is a type of artificial intelligence that produces text, images, video, code or audio from massive datasets. The current study investigated the association between empathy and creativity and how generative AI usage influences this association among young adults. Standardized scales were used to measure empathy, creativity and generative AI usage. The sample included 61 participants belonging to the age group 20-30. The findings showed significant positive correlation between creativity and empathy as well as generative AI usage and creativity. The results also revealed that the main effects of empathy and generative AI usage on creativity were statistically significant but the interaction effect of empathy and generative AI usage on creativity was found to be statistically insignificant. Simple slope analysis demonstrated that the association between empathy and creativity was significant at average and low levels of generative AI usage but became non-significant at high levels of generative AI usage. The findings suggested that young adults with high creativity should practice perspective-taking and design solutions byemploying design- thinking frameworks to enhance empathy. They should improve creativity by using generative AI as a brainstorming tool to reduce mental block and apprehension during ideation process of a project.