Task interest remains stable across consecutive creativity tasks: interest in one task is strongly and directly associated with interest in the next, with little mediation by task experience¶

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Currency · newest study 2025 · checked against its sources 2026-10-19 (automated, 1 of 1 entry) · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? In an observational SEM, perceived interest in Task 1 was strongly associated with interest in Task 2 (β = 0.52) with no significant mediation through task experience, and person-level value of creativity was associated with Task 1 interest mostly directly (β = 0.49), task experience mediating only 6% of that effect. → Kamila Urban 2025

Evidence¶

Kamila Urban 2025¶

Kamila Urban, Marek Urban. (2025). Metacognition and motivation in creativity: examining the roles of self-efficacy and values as cues for metacognitive judgments. Metacognition and Learning. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11409-025-09421-5

q2 · i? · associational · r2

In the SEM testing H2c, "there was no mediation" of Task 1 interest on Task 2 interest, while the direct effect remained strong; H2a was also not supported, with task experience mediating only 6% of the value-of-creativity effect on Task 1 interest. These are associations in a structural model of one sample, not evidence that prior interest causes later interest.

"the results did not support this hypothesis, as there was no mediation (β = − 0.01, p =.392). The direct effect of perceived interest in Task 1 on perceived interest in Task 2 remained strong (β = 0.52, p <.001)."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Interest — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes
• Motivation — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes

Related Claims¶

• Perceived value of creativity informs judgments and expectancies primarily indirectly through task-specific variables, especially task interest — related
• Creative performance weakly predicts metacognitive judgments, with perceived difficulty and task interest serving as additional cues — related
• Perceived difficulty and task interest in Task 1 indirectly inform expectancy beliefs for Task 2 — related
• Interest in specific tasks (Task3, Task5, Task6) strongly predicted Course interest, and Task3 and Task5 also directly predicted Domain interest. — related
• Task interest was strongly interconnected across the course, with each task's interest predicting interest in the next tasks. — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)