Creativity and experience of a creative task: Person and environment effects

被引:31
作者
King, Lauren [1 ]
Gurland, Suzanne T. [1 ]
机构
[1] Middlebury Coll, Dept Psychol, Middlebury, VT 05753 USA
关键词
creativity; causality orientation; evaluation threat; motivation;
D O I
10.1016/j.jrp.2007.01.005
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 [教育学]; 0402 [心理学];
摘要
We examined the effects of a person factor (general causality orientation) and an environment factor (threat of evaluation) on creativity and personal experience of a creative collage-making task. Ninety college students completed questionnaires and made a collage under conditions of expected evaluation or no-evaluation. Creativity was a function of participants' characterizations of themselves as artistic, and among men, of the interaction between environment and person factors. Task experience was affected by environment factors and, marginally, by the interaction of environment and person factors, with participants feeling less competent at the task under threat of evaluation, and exerting the greatest effort when they were under evaluation threat and were higher on control orientation. These findings may have implications for future motivation for creative tasks. (C) 2007 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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页码:1252 / 1259
页数:8
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