College Students' Trade-Off among Creativity Outcomes under Constraint Contexts: Novelty or Usefulness

Abstract

Abstract: Extant research has not examined the trade-off between novelty and usefulness among university students under constraint contexts. This article constructs a constraint scenario composed of 8 constraint factors by using the research method of policy capture. Based on the data of 1 200 observations of 40 college students, the results of seemingly uncorrelated regression show that time constraint and financial resource constraint promote college students to pursue usefulness, but reduce their propensity to pursue novelty. Human resource constraints and task autonomy reduce college students' tendency to pursue usefulness; formalization reduces the tendency of pursuing novelty, but increases the tendency of pursuing usefulness. Task standards and outcome requirement prompt college students to pursue usefulness.

Key words: Constraint, Creativity, Novelty, Usefulness, Policy capturing, University students

CLC Number:

G642

WANG Jiangang, LIU Fanghong, ZHONG Yue. College Students' Trade-Off among Creativity Outcomes under Constraint Contexts: Novelty or Usefulness[J]. The Theory and Practice of Innovation and Enntrepreneurship, 2023, 6(15): 12-18.

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