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Creative identity asymmetry: When and how it impacts psychological strain and creative performance

verfasst von: Yangxin Wang, Youngsang Kim, Dora C. Lau

Erschienen in: Asia Pacific Journal of Management | Ausgabe 2/2023

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Drawing on the identity asymmetry literature, transactional stress theory, and creativity literature, we investigate how a perceived discrepancy between an individual’s creative role identity and others’ views toward his/her creative role identity (i.e., creative identity asymmetry) influences individual’s creative performance via psychological strain. We also examine how perceived creativity requirement and self-monitoring alter the relationships between creative identity asymmetry, psychological strain, and creative performance. Based on two studies (an experimental study and a field study), we found that creative identity asymmetry was positively related to psychological strain and negatively and indirectly related to creative performance. We also found that the effects of negative asymmetry were stronger than positive asymmetry, while perceived creativity requirement and self-monitoring significantly strengthened most of these relationships. Hence, this study contributes to the literature on creativity, identity asymmetry, and stress.

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The pattern of results held across the situations whether we included the two-person groups or not.

We checked that there were no participant ratings of creative role identity with extreme scores, so our manipulation of positive and negative asymmetry could be assigned.

By providing the comparative information, rather than the absolute information, to the participants, we could ensure that what we manipulated was creative identity asymmetry but not creative self-efficacy. Indeed, creative identity asymmetry differs from creative self-efficacy conceptually. As creative self-efficacy refers to “the belief one has the ability to produce creative outcomes” (Tierney & Farmer, 2002: 1138), creative identity asymmetry refers to the discrepancy between creative role identity and creative reflected appraisal.

We invited two doctoral students to give creativity ratings for the participants’ individual ideas. Because the inter-rater reliability was low, we did not conduct analysis including the creativity measure.

We deleted one item in Meister et al. (2016) from our measure, “They see me incorrectly,” because it sounded inappropriate when translated into Chinese. Thus, we created a similar item based on Meister et al.’s (2014) definition.

The remaining item (i.e. “I do not have any clear concept about how to be a creative employee”) from Farmer et al. (2003) was dropped for two reasons. First, this item was somewhat ambiguous, especially when it was adapted to measure creative reflected appraisal. Second, this item had very low correlations with the other two items in Study 1. As this item was used for manipulation and not for analysis in Study 1, these two problems were not so serious in Study 1. However, because we needed to use the measure in Study 2, we decided to drop this item and used another student sample to validate the new scale (see in Appendix 2).

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Titel: Creative identity asymmetry: When and how it impacts psychological strain and creative performance
verfasst von: Yangxin Wang
Youngsang Kim
Dora C. Lau
Publikationsdatum: 30.10.2021
Verlag: Springer US
Erschienen in: Asia Pacific Journal of Management / Ausgabe 2/2023
Print ISSN: 0217-4561
Elektronische ISSN: 1572-9958
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10490-021-09793-7

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