Psychological Development and Education ›› 2001, Vol. 17 ›› Issue (1): 6-11.

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The relationship of Intrinsic Motivation and Extrinsic Motivation to Creativity

薛贵1, 董奇1, 周龙飞1, 张华1, 陈传生2   

  1. 1. 北京师范大学发展心理研究所, 100875;
    2. 美国加利福尼亚大学欧文分校
  • Online:2001-01-15 Published:2001-01-15

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Abstract: The relation between motivation and creativity has long been viewed as one of the important area in creativity research.In the present study,We explored the relationship and the unique contribution of intrinsic notivation,extrinsic motivation to creativity in the undergraduate students.Need for cognition Scale was administrated to 277 senior and undergraduate students major in social science.Multiple analysis of variance(MANOVA)showed that the main effects of intrinsic motivation and extrinsic motivation were both significant for the common part of the three creativity tasks,but their interaction was not significant.Further analysis indicated that there were no significant interaction between intrinsic notivation and extrinsic motivation in all three creative tasks.There were significant main effects of both intrinsic and extrinsic motivation in connection task.As for the naming task,the main effect of extrinxic motivation was significant while that of intrinsic motivation was not.As for the story task,neither of the main effects of intrinsic and extrinsic was significant.Hierarchical Multiple Regression(HMR)showed the unique contributions of extrinsic and intrinsic motivation to creativity were obviously task-related.

Key words: Creativity, intrinsic motivation, extrinsic motivation, Need for cognition

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  • B848.2
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