The curvilinear relationship between within-person creative self-efficacy and individual creative performance: the moderating role of approach/avoidance motivations
ISSN: 0048-3486
Article publication date: 13 April 2020
Issue publication date: 16 October 2020
Abstract
Purpose
This research adopts a dynamic self-regulation framework to test whether there is a curvilinear relationship between creative self-efficacy and individual creative performance at the within-person level. Furthermore, to establish a boundary condition of the predicted relationship, the authors build a cross-level model and examine how approach motivation and avoidance motivation moderate the complex relationship between creative self-efficacy and individual creative performance.
Design/methodology/approach
To obtain results from a within-person analysis, the authors collect multi-source data from 125 technicians who provided monthly reports over an 8-month period.
Findings
The authors find evidence of an inverted U-shaped relationship between creative self-efficacy and individual creative performance at the within-person level and differential moderating effects of approach/avoidance motivations.
Originality/value
This study is one of the first to challenge the assumption that creative self-efficacy always has a positive linear relationship with creativity. It provides a more complete view of the complex pattern between creative self-efficacy and creativity at the within-person level.
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Acknowledgements
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 71602067; the Humanity and Social Science on Youth Fund of the Ministry of Education under Grant No. 15YJCZH084; the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation under Grant No. 2016M601387; and partially supported by Ministry of Science and Technology Individual Research Grant of Taiwan (Project No. 103-2410-H-277-002-SSS).
Citation
Li, C.-R., Yang, Y., Lin, C.-J. and Xu, Y. (2020), "The curvilinear relationship between within-person creative self-efficacy and individual creative performance: the moderating role of approach/avoidance motivations", Personnel Review, Vol. 49 No. 9, pp. 2073-2091. https://doi.org/10.1108/PR-04-2019-0171
Publisher
:Emerald Publishing Limited
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