The Relationship between Positive Affection, Negative Affection and Intrinsic Motivation with Creativity
Subject Areas : Creativity and innovation from psychological, epistemological, educational and pedagogical
Hajar Kazemi Zadeh
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(کارشناسی ارشد روان شناسی بالینی، دانشگاه خوارزمی (نویسنده مسئول)kazemi5552@yahoo.com)
Robabeh Nouri Ghasemabadi
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(استاد دانشگاه خوارزمی، تهران، ایران rynoury@yahoo.com)
Keywords: Creativity, intrinsic motivation, Positive affect, negative affect,
Abstract :
Background: Creativity as the ability to generate novel ideas and think creatively about problems, has long been considered an important skill for individuals, as well as for societies. Objective: Therefore, this research was carried out to study the relationship between positive affection, negative affection and intrinsic motivation with creativity. Method: Among students of Tehran University 100 were selected using stratified random sampling to participate in the research. Research questionnaires included: Watson et al (1988), 20 item questionnaire for Assessment of Positive and Negative Affection, Amabile and Tierney’s (1999), 5 item intrinsic motivation questionnaire, and Palmon et al (2004), 11 item creativity questionnaire. Data were analyzed using Pearson’s correlation coefficient, step by step multiple regression analysis, and t- test. Findings: The results showed there is positive significant relation between creativity with positive affection and intrinsic motivation. There was also a negative - but not significant- correlation between negative affection and creativity. Based on these results, positive affection and intrinsic motivation could determinerespectively 46% and 4% of creativity’s variance. Conclusion: So, positive affection and intrinsic motivation can predict creativity scores, but negative affection is not a suitable predictor for creativity.
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