Post – Staps

English

In team sports, creativity is a fundamental skill insofar as it allows players to adapt in an environment with high social uncertainty. In situ, we must both hide our intentions from adversaries while being understood by our partners. While the study of creativity is experiencing unprecedented growth within the scientific community, it has not garnered significant interest among researchers specializing in team sports. In this contribution, through a literature review, we aim to better delineate the notion of creativity in team sports by outlining the factors that foster its expression. The multivariate approach to creativity, widely supported in the literature, suggests understanding creativity as a conjunction of cognitive, conative, affective, and environmental factors. Complementarily, the embodied creativity approach considers creativity as an experiential, multidimensional phenomenon connected to situational constraints that either facilitate or hinder its emergence. This dual framework leads us, after presenting the cognitive, conative, and emotional factors predictive of socio-motor inventiveness, to embed the concept of creativity within its situational context to enhance its operationality.