By Chetanjit Kaur

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..

Creativity world

Characteristics of Creativity

Openness to experience 

Perseverance

Intrinsic

motivation

Extrinsic motivation

Self-efficacy

Conceptual model

Intrinsic motivation

Personality Traits

• Openness to experience• Self efficacy• Perseveranc

e

Creativity

Extrinsic motivation

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:Springer Verlag.

Amabile, T. M. (1997). Motivating creativity in organizations: On doing what you love and loving what you do. California Management Review, 40, 39.