Chen Yan, Yu Cheng, Yuan Yuan, Lu Fang, Shen Wangbing
School of Psychology, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, China.
School of Education, Nantong University, Nantong, China.
Front Psychol. 2021 Aug 13;12:706234. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.706234. eCollection 2021.
Examining the trust-creativity relationship is important to promote creativity and organizational innovation. The goal of this study is to investigate how trust influences creativity by summarizing existing findings of diverse empirical studies. The impact of trust at different levels on creativity primarily manifests in three ways: (1) individuals' cognition- and affect-based trust has a positive effect on creativity together with the role of trust-derived perspective taking in creativity; (2) interpersonal trust helps enhance the joint creativity of an entire group via mediators such as team communication and commitment together with trust-evoked safety and the motivation to risk proposing, sharing, accepting or adopting uncommon ideas; (3) group trust has a positive, mostly indirect effect on creativity via mediating variables such as collaborative culture/climate and team communication. Potential implications and avenues for future research are also discussed.
研究信任与创造力之间的关系对于促进创造力和组织创新具有重要意义。本研究的目的是通过总结各种实证研究的现有结果来探究信任如何影响创造力。不同层面的信任对创造力的影响主要体现在三个方面：（1）个体基于认知和情感的信任对创造力具有积极影响，同时信任衍生的换位思考在创造力中也发挥作用；（2）人际信任通过团队沟通和承诺等中介因素，以及信任引发的安全感和提出、分享、接受或采用 uncommon 想法的冒险动机，有助于提高整个团队的联合创造力；（3）群体信任通过协作文化/氛围和团队沟通等中介变量对创造力产生积极的、大多是间接的影响。本文还讨论了潜在的影响以及未来研究的方向。
