In Pursuit of Everyday Creativity

Amabile, Teresa M.

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“…Creativity is defined as a process that involves refining the current understanding of a phenomenon and then generating new concepts and ideas (Amabile, 1983;Sternberg, 1985;Simonton, 1997). Creativity is crucial for corporate survival (Amabile, 2017) as it enables organizations to produce exceptional products that create a competitive advantage (Shalley and Gilson, 2004). According to Tang et al (2017), creativity must be recognized and studied within the cultural and social systems that it has originated.…”

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“…There was no mediation effect of creative self-efficacy on the relationship between a fixed mindset and a Chinese undergraduate's creative performance (Yunshu et al, 2019). These studies explored creativity-related outcomes such as initiation of independent projects (Boies et al, 2015), the pursuit of challenging tasks (Amabile, 2017), and creative performance (Farmer and Tierney, 2017). There are three potential reasons for these mixed findings: inadequacy in creative self-efficacy measurements, the existence of potential moderators, and the existence of other mediators.…”

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Awe Guards My Creativity: The Interactive Effect of Perceived Abusive Supervisory Behavior, Dispositional Awe, and Creative Self-Efficacy on Chinese Employee Creativity

2020

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The study examined the responses of employees to supervisors who exhibited abusive behavior and invoked dispositional awe to influence their followers. The proposition is that two divergent predictors of supervisor effectiveness interact to affect the behavior of subordinates. The purpose of this study was to examine the interactive effect of perceived abusive supervisory behavior and perceived supervisor dispositional awe on employee creative self-efficacy and creativity. To test the proposed model, we collected cross-sectional data from 196 working professionals pursuing their Masters of Business Administration (MBA) at a large university in China. Our findings confirmed that perceived abusive supervisory behavior and perceived supervisor dispositional awe were predictors of employee creativity. Also, perceived supervisor dispositional awe moderated the relationship between perceived abusive supervisory behavior and employee creative self-efficacy. The theoretical and practical implications for leaders and organizations were discussed.

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Awe Guards My Creativity: The Interactive Effect of Perceived Abusive Supervisory Behavior, Dispositional Awe, and Creative Self-Efficacy on Chinese Employee Creativity

2020

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“…For a long time, researchers sought to explore only well-known genius' creativity, but in the 1990s they began to study more widespread forms of creativity that were manifested in creative experiences associated with everyday life of ordinary individuals (Amabile, 2017). Unlike extraordinary creativity, which is typically defined as the ability to produce novel work of high quality that transforms the field with a breakthrough idea (Amabile, 2014;Beghetto & Kaufman, 2007), everyday creativity concerns everyone and occurs in many contexts.…”

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“…Nevertheless, everyday creativity is often under-recognized and underdeveloped. As a result, its accomplishments are insufficiently rewarded at school, work, and home (Amabile, 2017;Richards, 2007).…”

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Everyday Creativity: A Systematic Literature Review

Villanova

Cunha

2020

Journal of Creative Behavior

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We systematically review the concept and main characteristics of everyday creativity. First, we highlight the fact that a comprehensive definition of everyday creativity is still missing. The evidence reveals that the lack of a single approach for assessing everyday creative outcomes has led to an ambiguous understanding of this concept. Therefore, we propose a complementary perspective to define everyday creativity moving toward a broader comprehension of the construct. Second, we identify and analyze the main proprieties of everyday creativity in order to clearly distinguish it from big-c creativity, genius kind of creativity; thereby offering a more complete explanation of the concept. Last, we outline pathways for future research, emphasizing the potential of everyday creativity studies to intersect between multiple fields.

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“…The participants came up with their own concept of how they wanted to be represented through their choice of props and poses. Rather than view creativity as "the mysticism of special talents and abilities" (Nielsen, 2018, p. 1), we use the notion of "everyday creativity" (Amabile, 2017). Amabile is interested in "the rich variety of emotions, perceptions, and motivations" (p. 336) that individuals engaged in creativity are able to describe.…”

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Care, collaboration and critique: The intersection of creativity and wellbeing in older women

Moosad

Vaughan²

2020

Intnl. J. Wellbeing

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In this paper, we investigate the intersection of creativity and wellbeing for older women based on the experience of a group who participated in a photography project in Melbourne, Australia. We draw on interviews with 18 women who participated in the 500 Strong photography project in 2019. This project aimed to raise the visibility and dispel stereotypical portrayals of older women through an exhibition of nude photographs of more than 400 women aged over 50 from Melbourne and regional Victoria. We suggest that, for the participants in this study, creativity and wellbeing are interlinked through the domains of care, collaboration and critique. For some women, the photography experience was an act of care, to liberate themselves from negative images of ageing and celebrate their bodies. For others, participation was a creative venture through which they could collectively acknowledge the contributions of older women. Some women participated in the photography project to raise awareness of, and critique policies detrimental to, older women's wellbeing. The findings of this qualitative research with older women support the arguments that: 1) wellbeing is understood by the participants within a matrix of personal and structural security; 2) creativity is a critical and under-theorised dimension through which women make these understandings visible. This study contributes to literature on contemporary ageing that contests singular notions of decline and loss and to theorizing the use of creativity in wellbeing frameworks.

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In Pursuit of Everyday Creativity

Cited by 58 publications

References 16 publications

Awe Guards My Creativity: The Interactive Effect of Perceived Abusive Supervisory Behavior, Dispositional Awe, and Creative Self-Efficacy on Chinese Employee Creativity

Awe Guards My Creativity: The Interactive Effect of Perceived Abusive Supervisory Behavior, Dispositional Awe, and Creative Self-Efficacy on Chinese Employee Creativity

Everyday Creativity: A Systematic Literature Review

Care, collaboration and critique: The intersection of creativity and wellbeing in older women

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