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The effect of income inequality on individual ideation-based creativity via self-regulation

The purpose of this research is to examine the impact of income inequality on individual creativity. Specifically, it is hypothesized that an individual’s creative performance (via a remote associatives test) is affected negatively in a high income inequality condition. Theoretical research suggests that the mechanism that enables this is self-regulation. As such self-regulation is measured as a mediator in this relationship. Two online-panel experiments were designed and conducted to test these relationships. The results did not show significant results for the mediation relationship. Self-regulation does have a positive relationship with creative performance, and income inequality shows a negative relationship with creativity in some conditions, however there is no relationship between income inequality and self-regulation. This research develops the theoretical background for the relationship between income inequality, self-regulation, and creativity. It also provides some lessons-learned from an experimental mediation design with an independent variable that has multiple categorical variables. / October 2015

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:MANITOBA/oai:mspace.lib.umanitoba.ca:1993/30778
Date12 September 2015
CreatorsMorris, Kevin
ContributorsBapuji, Hari (Business Administration), Zhu, Luke (Business Administration) Hudson, Ian (Economics) Mishra, Sandeep (Business Administration, University of Regina)
Source SetsUniversity of Manitoba Canada
Detected LanguageEnglish

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