Dual Tuning in Creative Processes: Joint Contributions of Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivational Orientations

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: Gong, Yaping; Wu, Junfeng; Song, Lynda Jiwen; Zhang, Zhen
• 署名单位: Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Chicago; University of Illinois Chicago Hospital; Renmin University of China; Arizona State University; Arizona State University-Tempe
• 刊物名称: JOURNAL OF APPLIED PSYCHOLOGY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0021-9010
• DOI: 10.1037/apl0000185
• 发表日期: 2017
• 页码: 829-844
• 关键词: intrinsic motivational orientation; extrinsic motivational orientation; personal creativity goal; creativity; motivational synergy

摘要

Intrinsic and extrinsic motivational orientations often coexist and can serve important functions. We develop and test a model in which intrinsic and extrinsic motivational orientations interact positively to influence personal creativity goal. Personal creativity goal, in turn, has a positive relationship with incremental creativity and an inverted U-shaped relationship with radical creativity. In a pilot study, we validated the personal creativity goal measure using 180 (Sample 1) and 69 (Sample 2) employees from a consulting firm. In the primary study, we tested the overall model using a sample of 657 research and development employees and their direct supervisors from an automobile firm. The results support the hypothesized model and yield several new insights. Intrinsic and extrinsic motivational orientations synergize with each other to strengthen personal creativity goal. Personal creativity goal in turn benefits incremental and radical creativity, but only up to a certain point for the latter. In addition to its linear indirect relationship with incremental creativity, intrinsic motivational orientation has an inverted U-shaped indirect relationship with radical creativity via personal creativity goal.