Rising up to the ‘challenge’? The role of need for closure and situational appraisals in creative performance

Sankaran, Sindhuja; Grzymała-Moszczyńska, Joanna; Strojny, Agnieszka; Strojny, Paweł; Kossowska, Małgorzata

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2016.10.045

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“…Regarding the general NFC score, NC and NFC seem to show a low negative correlation which also proves the results obtained in the studies of Rocchi [ 1 ], Chirumbolo et al [ 2 ], García-Ramírez and Hazir [ 3 ], García-Ramírez [ 4 ] and Sankaran et al [ 5 ]. Again, in the example of narrative creativity, it seems to be correlated with NFC in the same way as general creativity.…”

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confidence: 82%

“…Regarding gender, we need to highlight that in the few similar studies in the field of NFC and creativity [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 ], the results are not interpreted following gender division. In the present study, male participants showed a tendency to give more invalid answers, which can be related with the personal gender differences and reflective of the attitude of motivation/demotivation or being sincere/insincere when answering the test questions.…”

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confidence: 97%

“…Regarding the need for cognitive closure and creativity, the present work has as an antecedent several recent studies by Rocchi [ 1 ], Chirumbolo et al [ 2 ], García-Ramírez and Hazir [ 3 ], García-Ramírez [ 4 ] and Sankaran et al [ 5 ]. The studies have pointed out the interrelation between creativity and the need for cognitive closure.…”

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confidence: 98%

“…Sankaran et al [ 5 ] also pointed out that the participants with high indexes of NFC had lower creativity (for the variables of fluency, originality, persistence and partially flexibility), while lower indexes of NFC corresponded to higher creativity indexes.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Correlation between the Need for Cognitive Closure and Narrative Creativity in Secondary Education

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Portnova

Zurita-Ortega

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(1) Background: The present study analyzed the need for cognitive closure and narrative creativity in adolescents. The aim was to demonstrate a strong relationship between narrative creativity and the need for cognitive closure. We analyzed a group of participants by applying a lie scale integrated with the Need for Closure Scale to detect potential relationships between students that entered the lie scale group (discarded) and those that were not discarded by exploring the following variables: gender, school type, group condition, and narrative creativity. (2) Methods: The instruments used were the Need for Closure Scale and the Test of Creative Imagination for Young People, PIC-J. Students of English as a foreign language in the 3rd year of secondary education from two schools were selected based on their availability to participate in the project. The students were aged 14 to 16 with a non-probabilistic sampling value of N = 117. (3) Results: Results show a negative correlation between narrative creativity and the need for cognitive closure. The need for cognitive closure is mainly manifested in two of its five dimensions: order and predictability. In addition, the group analysis of the lie scale revealed a higher tendency of male students to be less likely to respond truthfully. Meanwhile, the percentage of participants in the lie scale group was higher in rural schools. (4) Conclusions: In conclusion, students who do not belong to the lie scale group seem to have more creativity than students in the lie scale group, while students in the lie scale group have a lower final course grade than students in the non lie scale group.

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confidence: 98%

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“…For example, people who are higher in NFC show lower ability to cope with organizational change (Kruglanski et al, 2007), as well as lower intention to use new technologies because of anxiety associated with these technologies (Chernikova et al, 2017). Moreover, individuals higher in NFC (dispositional and manipulated) generate fewer new ideas in a creative task (Chirumbolo et al, 2004(Chirumbolo et al, , 2005Sankaran et al, 2017).…”

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Motivated team innovation: Impact of need for closure and epistemic authority

Theodorou

Livi

Kruglanski

et al. 2022

Group Processes & Intergroup Relations

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New members are important sources of innovative perspectives in groups. However, it can be very difficult for newcomers’ ideas to be heard. It is likely that group members with high (vs. low) levels of need for closure (NFC) are more resistant to newcomers’ innovative ideas. Moreover, when group epistemic authority (EA) is high, members should “freeze” on the group’s ideas, regardless of the newcomer’s EA. In contrast, when group EA is low, members would be expected to “seize” the ideas proposed by newcomers with high EA. Study 1 confirmed that high (vs. low) NFC group members are more resistant to newcomers’ innovative ideas. In Study 2, in high NFC groups, evidence was obtained for seizing but not freezing. In Study 3, for group members with heightened NFC, both freezing and seizing results were obtained. Findings suggest that both NFC and EA play important roles in receptivity to newcomers’ ideas.

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Core Job Characteristic and Uncertainty Avoidance: Into the Black Box of Transformational Leadership Effect on Creativity

Wang

2018

Journal of Creative Behavior

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Drawing upon the job characteristic model and the “management of meaning” perspective, this study examines the process and conditions through which transformational leadership fosters employee creativity. Our results reveal that the effect of transformational leadership on creativity is mediated by employees’ perceptions of core job characteristics (variety, identity, significance, autonomy, feedback). This mediation effect is further moderated by employees’ uncertainty avoidance orientation. Specifically, transformational leaders foster creativity through followers’ perceptions of core job characteristics only among employees low on uncertainty avoidance. The association between enhanced job characteristics and creativity is more positive for employees with low uncertainty avoidance orientation than those with high uncertainty avoidance orientation. Implications and future research directions are discussed.

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Rising up to the ‘challenge’? The role of need for closure and situational appraisals in creative performance

Cited by 10 publications

References 18 publications

Correlation between the Need for Cognitive Closure and Narrative Creativity in Secondary Education

Correlation between the Need for Cognitive Closure and Narrative Creativity in Secondary Education

Motivated team innovation: Impact of need for closure and epistemic authority

Core Job Characteristic and Uncertainty Avoidance: Into the Black Box of Transformational Leadership Effect on Creativity

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