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Effects of Social and Emotional Intelligence on the Creative Process and Individual Creativity

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U- and E-Service, Science and Technology (UNESST 2011)

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This study proposes an individual creativity model that consists of personal psychological characteristics and creative processes. We argue that social intelligence and emotional intelligence, as personal psychological characteristics, significantly influence creativity, and analyze how they are related to the creative process and individual creativity. We assume that the creative process includes both exploitation and exploration, where exploitation is considered an existing use of the solution and exploration is believed to aid in the development of new solutions. Using a structural equation model to analyze 447 valid questionnaires collected from employees in the Korean IT industry, we find that the creative process and individual creativity are reinforced by high levels of social and emotional intelligence. Another interesting finding is that exploration reinforces individual creativity, while exploitation does not directly strengthen individual creativity ual creativity, Exploration, Exploitation, Social intelligence, Emotional intelligence.

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  1. SKK Business School, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, 110-745, Republic of Korea

    Min Hee Hahn

  2. Solution Business Unit, LG CNS Co., Ltd, Seoul, 100-725, Republic of Korea

    Do Young Choi

  3. Professor at SKK Business School, WCU Professor at Department of Interaction Science, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, 110-745, Republic of Korea

    Kun Chang Lee

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  1. Multimedia Engineering Department, Hannam University, 133 Ojeong-dong, Daeduk-gu, Daejeon, Korea

    Tai-hoon Kim

  2. The Ohio State University, 470 Hitchcock Hall, 2070 Neil Avenue, 43210-1275, Columbus, OH, USA

    Hojjat Adeli

  3. Hosei University, 184-8584, Tokyo, Japan

    Jianhua Ma

  4. National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C.

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  5. School of Computing and Information Systems, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia

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  6. Hannam University, Daejeon, Korea

    Byungjoo Park

  7. Oslo University College, Norway

    Frode Eika Sandnes

  8. Sungkyunkwan University, 110-745, Seoul, Republic of Korea

    Kun Chang Lee

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Hahn, M.H., Choi, D.Y., Lee, K.C. (2011). Effects of Social and Emotional Intelligence on the Creative Process and Individual Creativity. In: Kim, Th., et al. U- and E-Service, Science and Technology. UNESST 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 264. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27210-3_26

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