Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) necessitates global collaboration among nations. This study aimed to create and evaluate the effectiveness of the SDGs-based Creative Problem-solving Test (SDGs-CPT) in bolstering problem-solving skills aligned with the SDGs. The intervention in this study focused on future thinking, which involves the amalgamation of information from memory to simulate new conditions or circumstances. This process potentially enhances the capacity to devise innovative solutions or anticipate outcomes when tackling future challenges. Ninety-six college students participated in the research, randomly assigned to either an experimental or control group. The experimental group received a three-session intervention focused on fostering future thinking, while the control group completed tasks involving rearranging scrambled sentences. Utilizing the SDGs-CPT, we measured participants' creative problem-solving abilities. Repeated Measures Analysis of Variance demonstrated a significant enhancement in creative problem-solving among those who underwent the future-thinking intervention, contrasting with no similar improvement in the control group. These findings underscore the efficacy of our three-step future-thinking intervention in promoting open-mindedness, embracing diverse perspectives, and generating creative solutions for SDG-related challenges. Moreover, the results highlight the substantial impact even a brief future-thinking intervention can have on enhancing creative problem-solving performance.

Authors:
Chien Lin Wu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Ming Wei Gabriel Chua, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Yu-chu Yeh, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Chia-Hsiang Ma, National Chengchi University, Taiwan

About the Presenter(s)
Mr Chia-Hsiang Ma is a University Doctoral Student at National Chengchi University, Taiwan, R.O.C. in Taiwan

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