The Role of Instrumental Emotion Regulation in the Emotions-Creativity Link: How Worries Render Individuals with High Neuroticism more Creative

• Main Authors: LEUNG, Angela K.-Y., LIOU, Shyhnan, QIU, Lin, KWAN, Letty Y. Y., CHIU, Chi-Yue, YONG, Jose C.
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2014
• Subjects: Creativity; Emotional Regulation; Emotions; Instrumentality; Neuroticism; Personality and Social Contexts; Social Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/1555; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/2812/viewcontent/RoleERegulationEmotionCreativity_2014.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Based on the instrumental account of emotion regulation (Tamir, 2005), the current research seeks to offer a novel perspective to theemotions–creativity debate by investigating the instrumental value of trait-consistent emotions in creativity. We hypothesize that emotionssuch as worry (vs. happy) ar...