Mediating Effects of Intrinsic Motivation on The Relationship Between Positive Psychological Capital, Psychological Empowerment and Creativity

Abstract

This study examined the relationship among PsyCap(positive psychological capital), psychological empowerment, personal creativity and verified the mediated effects of intrinsic motivation in this relationship using the SEM (Structural Equation Model). For this study, the data was collected through on/off-line surveys of members and managers from 12 different enterprises. Among the 418 answers from voluntary participating employees, 332 answers were finally used for statistical analysis. The results were as follows. First, PsyCap had a positive influence on the intrinsic motivation and personal creativity. Second, Psychological Empowerment had a positive influence on intrinsic motivation, but psychological empowerment has no influence on creativity. Third, intrinsic motivation had a meaningful influence by partially mediating PsyCap and personal creativity but completely mediated psychological empowerment and personal creativity. This study focused on intrinsic motivation among the internal factors that have influences on showing personal creativity and has importance in the point that it has suggested the statistical significance by analyzing the psychological/emotional mechanism to reinforce this intrinsic motivation in a positive way. Positive analysis on the relationships among these variables suggests a theoretical meaning on providing a future direction for the study and practical meaning on providing ideas to reinforce the employees' personal creativity. The details of this study are followed in the main text.

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“…The positive psychological capital construct of Luthans et al (2007a) is an accurate and measurably reliable higher-order, latent multi-dimensional construct. Also, the theory of positive psychology has consistently demonstrated the link between PsyCap (hope, efficacy, resilience, and optimism: HERO) and employees' well-being (Mangundjaya 2012, Siu et al 2015, Youssef-Morgan and Luthans 2015, Gibson and Hicks 2018, subjective well-being (Afzal et al 2016), vocational well-being (Zhao and You 2019), academic motivation (Jafri 2017), employee productivity (Ganotice et al 2016), and intrinsic motivation (Choi and Chang 2014). Rabenu et al (2017) also added that PsyCap was found to have a healthy, positive, and direct correlation with well-being and performance.…”