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HUMAN RELATIONS
Volume 68, Issue 10, Pages 1601-1622Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
DOI: 10.1177/0018726714562235
Keywords
creativity; learning goal orientation; negative mood; psychological empowerment
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Emotion researchers have found that negative mood may either enhance or inhibit employee creativity. Little is known about this conundrum, however, and in particular when and why each effect occurs. To address this concern, we formulate and test hypotheses about likely moderators of the relationship between negative mood and creative process engagement. Results from an experience sampling study with 556 real-time reports from 68 employees support our hypothesis that negative mood is most strongly and positively related to concurrent creative process engagement among employees who (a) have high trait learning goal orientation and (b) perceive that they are empowered. Our hypotheses and findings help to resolve the ongoing controversy surrounding the nature of the negative mood-creativity nexus.
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