The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia.
J Appl Psychol. 2012 May;97(3):599-612. doi: 10.1037/a0026097. Epub 2011 Oct 31.
State mood has been proposed as a facilitator of creative behavior. Whereas positive mood compared to neutral mood generally facilitates creative performance, mood effects are weaker and less consistent when positive mood is compared to negative mood. These inconsistent results may be due to focusing only on mood valence, while neglecting or confounding mood activation. The current study is based on the dual-pathway model, which describes separate roles for mood valence and mood activation in facilitating creativity. We used experience sampling methodology to investigate the concurrent and lagged effects of mood valence and activation on creative process engagement (CPE) within-person over time among individuals working on a long-term project requiring creativity. We also investigated the moderating effects of individual differences in goal orientation and supervisory support on within-person mood-creativity relationships. As expected, we found that activating positive and activating negative moods were positively associated with concurrent CPE, whereas deactivating moods of both valences were negatively related to CPE. Activating negative mood had a significant lagged effect on CPE, whereas activating positive mood did not. We also found that activating positive mood was more strongly related to concurrent CPE among individuals with high rather than low learning goal orientation. Further, activating positive mood interacted with prove goal orientation and supervisory support for creativity, such that activating positive mood had the strongest association with CPE when both prove goal orientation and supervisory support were high.
心境状态被认为是创造性行为的促进因素。虽然与中性心境相比，积极心境通常会促进创造性表现，但当与消极心境相比时，心境效应较弱且不那么一致。这些不一致的结果可能是由于只关注心境效价，而忽视或混淆了心境激活。本研究基于双通道模型，该模型描述了心境效价和心境激活在促进创造力方面的独立作用。我们使用经验抽样法，在个体从事需要创造力的长期项目时，在个体内部随时间研究心境效价和激活对创造性过程投入（CPE）的并发和滞后影响。我们还研究了目标导向和监督支持的个体差异对心境-创造力关系的调节作用。正如预期的那样，我们发现激活积极和消极心境与并发 CPE 呈正相关，而两种效价的去激活心境与 CPE 呈负相关。激活消极心境对 CPE 有显著的滞后效应，而激活积极心境则没有。我们还发现，在具有高而非低学习目标导向的个体中，激活积极心境与并发 CPE 的相关性更强。此外，激活积极心境与证明目标导向和创造力监督支持相互作用，即当证明目标导向和监督支持都很高时，激活积极心境与 CPE 的关联最强。
