The Effects of Extrinsic Motivators on Creativity of the Different Creative Tasks

• Main Authors: Lai,Chia-Min, 賴佳旻
• Other Authors: Chen, Yu-Shu
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2012
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/57589609899975378221

碩士 === 國立中正大學 === 成人及繼續教育研究所 === 100 === The purpose of this study, based on Amabile’s motivational synergy model, was to explore the impact of intrinsic motivation and different extrinsic motivations on creative performance performing on different nature of tasks . Both study 1 and 2 manipulated two extrinsic motivations: performance-contingent reward and expected evaluation. And that creative tasks of study 1 was artistic (collages), creative tasks of study 2 was verbal (titles for a short story). A total of 90 subjects from Creativity Development Course of Center for General Education National Chung Cheng University were collected. Results indicated that sex had impact on creative performance of artistic tasks. And intrinsic motivation had positive impact on creative performance of verbal tasks. Implications and suggestions for research and practice are discussed.