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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 28 April 2023
Past studies have shown that being exposed to ethnocultural diversity can positively impact individual creativity. Yet, little is known about the interplay between situational (i.e., diversity) and dispositional (e.g., personality) factors in predicting creativity. Taking a person-situation approach, we use social network data to test the moderating role of personality in the relationship between having an ethnoculturally diverse network and creativity. Moreover, we investigate these questions in a diverse community sample of immigrants residing in the city of Barcelona (N = 122). Moderation analyses revealed that network diversity predicted higher levels of creativity in migrant individuals with medium to high levels of extraversion, and in those with low to medium levels of emotional stability. These results highlight the need to acknowledge the important role played by interacting individual-level dispositions and more objective meso-level contextual conditions in explaining one’s ability to think creatively, especially in samples that have traditionally been underrepresented in previous literature.
Acknowledgement: The authors would like to thank the funding agencies, the people who participated in the studies, the cultural organizations that helped in the recruitment of immigrant participants, as well as Eva Maciocco for her contribution to study design and data collection, and Judith Escuin for her effortful contribution to the coding of creativity.
Funding Statement: This research was supported with funds received by V. B. M. from the EU (FP7-MCCIG 294022), La Caixa Foundation (RecerCaixa call 2012), and from the “Agència de Gestió d’Ajuts Universitaris i de Recerca” (AGAUR) of the Generalitat de Catalunya, Spain (2010 ARAFI 100022), and with funds referenced PSI2016-79300-R from the “Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad” (MINECO), “Agencia Estatal de Investigación” (AEI), and the European Regional Development Fund (FEDER). The German National Scholarship Foundation supported the work undertaken by L. R.
Conflicts of Interest: None.
Data Sharing: The raw data supporting the conclusions of this article, methods, code, and materials used to conduct this research will be made available by the authors, upon request.