Creativity and Certain Personality traits Understanding the Mediating

Self-efficacy insic n r t n I tio a v i t mo Extrinsic

Intrinsic motivation Personality Traits • Openness to experience • Self efficacy • Perseverance Creativity

Purpose of the study: q To examine the relationship between creativity and the personality

The study was based on six hypothesis: • Self-efficacy will relate significantly and positively

• IM will be positively related to creativity. • IM mediates the relationship

Method and measures: • Data was collected from 124 undergraduate students enrolled in introductory

Measures: • Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation are measured by using the work preference

Results Creativity was found : • Positively related to self-efficacy, openness to experience and

�Results contd. . . �Intrinsic motivation was found to be correlated with all 3

Fig: Creativity predicted by the two-way interaction between selfefficacy and extrinsic motivation.

Result contd. . IM mediated relationship between: • Openness to experience and creativity. •

�Results contd. . �EM was found to completely moderate the relationship between creativity and

�Limitations: �All measures were self-reported. �Another limitation was related to common method variance as

References Amabile, T. M. (1983). The social psychology of creativity. New York: Springer

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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 Chetanjit Kaur

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Intrinsic motivation Personality Traits • Openness to experience • Self efficacy • Perseverance Creativity Extrinsic motivation Conceptual model

Purpose of the study: q To examine the relationship between creativity and the personality traits of selfefficacy and perseverance. q To test the meditational role of intrinsic motivation and 3 personality traits and creativity. q 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 selfefficacy 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.