Person: Personality, Affect, and Inventiveness

Rouxelle Villiers ()
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Rouxelle Villiers: Auckland University of Technology

Chapter Chapter 8 in The Handbook of Creativity & Innovation in Business, 2022, pp 155-176 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Personality refers to the characteristics of the person that account for consistent patterns of feelings, thinking, and behaving, that distinguishes one person from another and persist over time. Personality has conspicuous impact on creative intelligence (CiQ) and individuals’ success (or failure) in developing new ideas and translating those novel, original ideas into appropriate, valuable actions or artefacts. There is an extensive body of knowledge on the impact of personality traitsPersonality traits on creative intentions (motivations), inventions (enacting or executing ideas) and how these traits interact with the creative teams and processes that occurs at work. It is important to note right at the outset that creative personalities vary greatly between domains and disciplines. A further key concept readers will quickly arrive at, is that there not one single identifying personality traitPersonality traits for creative genii. Also, no personality traitsPersonality traits should be regarded as predictive of performance (either at work or at playPlay), without considering the wider context or the specific situation (i.e., the other Ps in six Ps of creative intelligence).

Keywords: AffectAffect; ImaginationImagination; Intrinsic motivationIntrinsic motivation; OCEAN five-factors6PsOCEAN five-factors; Personality traitsPersonality traits; Self-actualizersSelf-actualizers; Self-efficacySelf-efficacy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-981-19-2180-3_8

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