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Motives for Creativity: Exploring the What and Why of Everyday Creativity
Benedek, Mathias; Bruckdorfer, Raphaela; Jauk, Emanuel
Journal of Creative Behavior, v54 n3 p610-625 Sep 2020
People spend a lot of time on creative activities in their leisure time, but we still know little about what these activities are and what drives them. The literature suggests that several specific motives may be relevant for everyday creative behavior, including enjoyment, expression, challenge, coping, prosocial, social, material, recognition, and duty motives. Across two online studies totaling 750 participants, enjoyment was the strongest motive for everyday creativity, consistent with previous research linking creativity to intrinsic motivation and positive affect. Importantly, however, the relevance of motives differed across creative domains: visual arts, literature, and music were more strongly motivated by expression and coping motives, whereas handicrafts and creative cooking were more strongly motivated by prosocial and recognition motives. Intrinsic motives for creative activities were substantially related to high openness to experience, but explained incremental variance in the prediction of self-reported creativity as well as rated creative achievements. Together, these findings provide new insights into the motivational basis and function of everyday creativity.
Descriptors: Creativity, Leisure Time, Creative Activities, Psychological Patterns, Motivation, Visual Arts, Literature, Music, Coping, Handicrafts, Predictor Variables
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