Having a Creative Day: A Daily Diary Study of the Interplay Between Daily Activating Moods and Physical Work Environment on Daily Creativity. (28th December 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Chi, Nai‐Wen; Liao, Hsueh‐Hua; Chien, Wan‐Ling
• Is Part Of: Journal of creative behavior. Volume 55:Number 3(2021)
• Page Start: 752
• Page End: 768
• Publication Date: 2020-12-28
• Subjects: activating moods -- creativity -- physical working environment -- daily diary study; Creative ability -- Periodicals; Creativeness -- Abstracts; Creativeness -- Periodicals; Education -- Abstracts; Education -- Periodicals; Créativité -- Périodiques; 153.35
• DOI: 10.1002/jocb.488
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0022-0175

Abstract

Abstract: Although recent studies have attempted to clarify the daily dynamics between moods and creativity, relatively limited studies have explored how daily positive and negative activating moods influence changes in daily creativity (i.e., controlling for the effects of prior daily creativity) in real organizations. Furthermore, although the importance of the physical working environment has been highlighted in the creativity literature, it remains unclear how the dimensions of the physical working environment (i.e., adjustability of work area and facilitation of informal communication ) influence employees' daily creativity directly or moderate the effects of daily activating moods on creativity. Using the daily diary research design, we collect lagged daily data from 70 creative workers across ten consecutive working days, yielding 662 valid matched daily responses. The results of multilevel path analysis show that both daily positive/negative activating moods had lagged and positive effects on changes in subsequent creativity, and the physical environment that facilitates informal interactions strengthened these positive lagged effects. Besides, a physical environment that facilitates informal interactions also directly predicted changes in daily creativity. Surprisingly, the work area's adjustability attenuated the positive lagged effect of daily positive activating moods on daily creativity.