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Creativity and Certain Personality traits: Understanding the Mediating Effects of Intrinsic motivation. Prabhu , V., Sutton, C., & Sauser , W.(2008)Creativity and certain personality traits: understanding the mediating effects of intrinsic motivation. Creative research journal , 20(1), 53-66.
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Creativity and Certain Personality traits: Understanding the Mediating Effects of Intrinsic motivation. Prabhu, V., Sutton, C., & Sauser, W.(2008)Creativity and certain personality traits: understanding the mediating effects of intrinsic motivation. Creative research journal, 20(1), 53-66.. By ChetanjitKaur
Self-efficacy Intrinsic motivation Extrinsic motivation Perseverance Openness to experience Characteristics of Creativity
Intrinsic motivation • Personality Traits • Openness to experience • Self efficacy • Perseverance Creativity Extrinsic motivation Conceptual model
Purpose of the study: • To examine the relationship between creativity and the personality traits of self-efficacy and perseverance. • To test the meditational role of intrinsic motivation and 3 personality traits and creativity. • To test the moderating role of extrinsic motivation.
The study was based on six hypothesis: • Self-efficacy will relate significantly and positively to creativity. • Perseverance will be positively and significantly related to creativity. • Intrinsic motivation will mediate the relationship between openness to experience and creativity.
IM will be positively related to creativity. • IM mediates the relationship b/w perseverance and creativity. • EM will moderates the relationship b/w openness to experience /self-efficacy/ perseverance and creativity.
Method and measures: • Data was collected from 124 undergraduate students enrolled in introductory management courses. • Creativity was measured using WKOPAY. • Openness to experience was measured using NEO-FFI.
Measures: • Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation are measured by using the work preference inventory.
Results Creativity was found : • Positively related to self-efficacy, openness to experience and intrinsic motivation. • No significant relationship b/w creativity and perseverance was found.
Results contd... • Intrinsic motivation was found to be correlated with all 3 personality traits. • EM was found to be negatively associated with creativity
Fig: Creativity predicted by the two-way interaction between self-efficacy and extrinsic motivation.
Result contd.. IM mediated relationship between: • Openness to experience and creativity. • Self-efficacy and creativity.
Results contd.. • EM was found to completely moderate the relationship between creativity and perseverance.
Limitations: • All measures were self-reported. • Another limitation was related to common method variance as data was collected from single source.
References Amabile, T. M. (1983). The social psychology of creativity. New York:SpringerVerlag. Amabile, T. M. (1997). Motivating creativity in organizations: On doing what you love and loving what you do. California Management Review, 40, 39.