Regulatory Focus, Motivation, and Their Relationship With Creativity Among Adolescents

Abstract

Due to the close relationship among intrinsic/extrinsic motivation, regulatory focus, and creativity revealed by previous literature, intrinsic/extrinsic motivation may play a mediating role between regulatory focus and creativity. Therefore, the present study aimed to investigate the relationship between regulatory focus and creativity by combining intrinsic/extrinsic motivation. In this study, senior high school students (n = 418) completed the Regulatory Focus Questionnaire, the Working Preference Inventory, the Williams Creativity Assessment Packet, and the Kirton Adaption–Innovation Inventory. The correlation analysis showed that both promotion and prevention focus positively correlated with intrinsic motivation; intrinsic motivation and promotion focus positively correlated with creativity personality and innovative-adaptive cognitive style; and extrinsic motivation and prevention focus negatively correlated with innovative–adaptive cognitive style. Furthermore, a path model showed that promotion focus positively predicted creativity through the mediation of intrinsic motivation. In general, our study suggests that intrinsic motivation plays a mediating role between promotion focus and creativity. Our results complement those of previous studies and serve as inspiration for the cultivation of creativity in classroom or enterprise settings.

Employee Autonomy and Employee Creativity: The Mediating Role of Intrinsic Motivation

“…The impact of employee intrinsic motivation on employee creativity may be controversial (Wang et al, 2021). Lempiälä and Vanharanta (2018) recognize personal interest and organizational gain as the innovators' two motivational drivers and explored how they work in determining the level of intrinsic motivation of innovators towards innovative efforts.…”

Una revisión sistemática sobre las variables relacionadas con las habilidades sociales y la creatividad en el periodo de la adolescencia

“…Se ha demostrado cómo los jóvenes que tienen puntuaciones altas en creatividad destacan por ser capaces de regular sus emociones y tienen una motivación más alta que aquellos adolescentes que no son tan creativos, la cual actúa como mediador entre la creatividad y el enfoque regulador (Wang, Cui, Wang et al, 2021). Así pues, los adolescentes creativos son más competentes a la hora de resolver aquellos problemas que se les plantean en su vida cotidiana y, por tanto, tienden a ser más felices y satisfechos en su vida (Tan, Tan, Mohd Hashim et al, 2019).…”

“…Por otra parte, en relación a la creatividad, la evidencia científica se ha centrado en determinar cómo influye la actividad física en dicho constructo, alegando algunos estudios que existe una correlación positiva entre ambas (Piya-amomphan et al, 2020) y otros que las relaciones existentes entre creatividad y actividad física no son relevantes (Ruiz-Ariza et al, 2021). Los adolescentes con buenas puntuaciones en creatividad destacan por saber regular sus emociones (Wang et al, 2021), ser más extrovertidos , llevar a cabo buenas estrategias de afrontamiento (Passanisi et al, 2020), una mayor madurez social (Emishyants et al, 2020) y estar más satisfechos con su vida (Tan et al, 2019). En cambio, los jóvenes poco creativos tienden a un desempeño académico más bajo y a una memoria inferior Ramos Moreno et al, 2017).…”

Investigating the involvement of cognitive control processes in innovative and adaptive creativity and their age-related changes

“…Innovators aim to “do things differently,” challenge and go outside of the current and prevailing system and paradigm, and they are better in the divergent phase of problem-solving by generating many diverse and original options; while adaptors tend to “do things better,” preferring to work within the current system and paradigm while improving it by being more effective in the convergent phase of problem-solving–in selecting, evaluating, and precising options. Moreover, innovative creativity is connected to more radical, original, abstract, and problem-driven ideas, intrinsic motivation, promotion focus, and explorative behavior; while adaptive creativity is based on: more incremental, useful, concrete, and solution-driven ideas, extrinsic motivation, prevention focus, and exploitative behavior ( Gilson and Madjar, 2011 ; Wang et al, 2021 ). Overall on the Figural TTCT, innovators tend to give many quick and original responses, while adaptors provide more detailed ones.…”