The Impact Of Trust On Creativity

In recent years,creativity has increasingly become a driving force for sustaining economic and social development.And as an important social capital,trust has an important influence on creativity.Some studies have found a relationship between trust and creativity.However,the results obtained from different studies are inconsistent,such as excitation hypothesis,inhibition hypothesis,inverted U hypothesis,etc.And most studies were carried out from the microscopic point of view.That is to say,to explore the relationship between trust and creativity by inducing relevant realistic situations in the laboratory,which had some limitations.Therefore,this study attempted to explore the relationship between trust and creativity from a macro historical perspective by selecting the giants of Chinese or English(science and literature)as research objects.Based on the above questions,this study selected 78 Chinese and English giants from literature fields and science fields before the 1950s as the research objects.This study used the method of historiopsychometric to encode and quantify the trust level and social support level of giants by analyzing the biographies,history of science,history of literature and other materials of related giants,and then the creativity achievement scale is used to measure the creativity achievement of giants,to explore the relationship between trust and creativity.This study was carried out from the following three parts:Study 1 mainly discussed the differences of trust structure between Chinese and English giants;Study 2 explored the influence of various dimensions of trust on creativity achievements and their differences in fields.Study 3 was based on the role of social support in the relationship between trust and creativity,and explored the influence of social support on the predictive effect of institutional trust on creativity.After analysis,this study can drew the following conclusions:(1)On the level of total trust,The trust structure has cross-field differences and cross-cultural consistency.(2)The effect of institutional-trust on creativity presented a U-shaped model,that is to say,the score of creativity achievement decreased with the increase of institutional-trust,and then rose after reaching a certain threshold.The predictive effect of trust on creativity varied in different fields.Specifically,for literary giants,special-trust promoted creativity achievement,institutional-trust inhibited creativity achievement,and universal-trust had no significant effect on creativity achievement.For scientific giants,special-trust,universal-trust and institutional-trust had no significant predictive effect on creativity achievement.(3)For literary giants,social support weakened the predictive effect of institutional trust on creativity achievements,which was consistent with the trade-off theory.But for scientific giants,this study did not find this effect.