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A Study Of Postgraduates' Creative Motivation And Its' Characteristics In Chongqing

Posted on:2005-09-08Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:A L S LiFull Text:PDF
GTID:2167360122992821Subject:Development and educational psychology
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Creative motivation is the drive that can impel individual's creativity from latent state into practical state, including cognitive and emotional elements. Studies on creative motivation have developed increasingly deeply since 1950s. Various theories and models were developed. However, there were quite few measurement tools on creative motivation. So far in China, there is no questionnaire on creative motivation to measure Chinese intelligentsia. The purpose of this study is to revise the Work Preference Inventory, to develop a questionnaire on creative motivation, which fits in with Chinese intelligentsia, and to explore the characteristics of individuals' creative motivation.Based on literature reviews, responses of an open-ended questionnaire and interviews on individual postgraduates and psychology experts, the concordance of the Work Preference Inventory with Chinese subjects' characteristics was analyzed and a preliminary questionnaire was developed. On the basis of the results of psychometric analysis, a formal questionnaire was formed. 239 postgraduates in Chongqing answered the formal questionnaire. The results are as follows:The revised Work Preference Inventory is of good reliability and validity. Internal concordance coefficient (Cronbach a coefficient) split-half coefficient, and test-retest reliability were analyzed to verify the reliability of the questionnaire. Thestructural validity was testified by the way of confirmatory factor analysis. The structure of the original questionnaire was revised as four factors, that is, enjoyment, challenge, outward, and compensation. The analysis of the content validity indicated that the questionnaire can objectively describe postgraduates' real state of creative motivation in Chongqing.Generally, there is no statistically significant gender difference in creative motivation. There are statistically significant major, age, work-year and grade differences in creative motivation. There are no statistically significant interactions on creative motivation between major and age, between major and work years, nor between age and work-year. There is statistically significant interaction on creative motivation between major and gender.Creative motivation tends to decline as grade increases. There are statistically significant differences between male postgraduates and female postgraduates specialized in education, between postgraduates specialized in arts, science, engineering and postgraduates specialized in management, agriculture, literature, education, and philosophy. Postgraduates from 31 to 35 years old have the highest level of creative motivation. Postgraduates with 4-6 years work experience have the highest level of creative motivation.Specifically on the four subscales, the results of one-way ANOVA indicate that there is statistically significant major difference in enjoyment, challenge, and outward motivation. There is statistically significant age difference in outward motivation. There is statistically significant work-year difference and grade difference in enjoyment and challenge motivation.
Keywords/Search Tags:creative motivation, creativity, questionnaire, work motivation
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